Edinburgh Botanical Gardens & London's Kew Gardens

Edinburgh Botanical Gardens & London's Kew Gardens

Choy Moo Kheong（Singaporean, b.1950）

Blue Whispering Day 2022 Acrylic on Canvas 139.7 x 114.3 cm via

reading up on ancient roman weddings to see if those customs would make sense in a capitol setting and i actually really like the concept of june weddings.

in the roman empire, june was the most popular month for weddings due to its connection with Juno. obviously, that reason doesn’t apply to the Capitol, but I can definitely see a bunch of capitolites hearing about these june weddings in ancient rome and making it a thing because they thought it was cool.

so june becomes the most popular month for weddings in the capitol. having a june wedding is also a sign of higher social status since they’re so expensive and venues are basically impossible to book. june is basically known as wedding season amongst wealthier capitol citizens.

anyways, all this to say that i really like the idea of a ton of june weddings happening in the capitol each year. there’s this juxtaposition between june in the capitol, where everyone is celebrating and a ton of fresh starts are happening, and june in the districts, where everybody is dreading the july 4th reapings and every day feels like a goodbye

I fascinated by the symbolism and imagery of the birds in the hunger games books. It fits the story very well and is actually very poetic.

Therefore, I would like to portray Katniss not only as a mockingjay symbol in a figurative sense of a bird, but also as an actual bird-like fantasy or even mythical creature, straight from a fairy tale. And it may not be a good old fairy tale, but children still need to hear it and learn the lesson.

"The Swan Princess"/ "Tsarevna-Lebed" by Mikhail Vrubel. 1900 and Katniss Everdeen as The Mockingjay

Jana Brike (Latvian, b. 1980)

The Crying Woman, 2023

Oil on canvas

The Gift of Galadriel by the Brothers Hildebrandt from the 1978 Tolkien Calendar