Word 13: You ought to let my fervent passion move you
Works in a series: 4 of 4

Photographer
Alejandro BLANCO (Alex)

Creative Idea
In 1646, two years after the suicide of Emperor Chongzhen, the Monastery of Santa Ana was established by Maria of Lazkao, located in the Spanish province of Guipuzkoa, where she decided to retire to  after the deaths of her eldest son and her husband, Antonio de Oquendo, the Admiral General of the Royal Armada.
 
In the heart of the village next to her family palace, we face an austere church that is surrounded by green hills, where the traditional Guipuzkoan sandstone has turned into an aged gold tonality due to the abundant rains of the region. A community of the Saint Bernard Cistercian Order of nuns fill the monastery with joy since its establishment, devoting to activities such as studying, praying, book-making and the harvesting of their own property land.
 
The Abbess has immediately accepted the proposal to embrace the orphan princess into a cloistered nun community where visitors and the curious can’t get in, and her sisters has taken special care of her, as if one of theirs. Thus, the present work shows a Cantonese opera character that is integrated into a real religious community of western Christian cloistered nuns, until a fortune twist leads Consort Chow to find the Floral Princess when she set out looking for firewood with her basket.

Work information
Leica M7 with SUMMICRON-M 35mm f/2 ASPH and Fuji Superia Extra 400 ASA film 

 
Floral Princess 65th Anniversary
a series of 9 events
Floral Princess | Professional Edition
ArenA | Write on, as THE tribute to YAM-PAK-TONG
Floral Princess | Theatre Student Edition
Floral Princess | Theatrical Concert Student Edition
Floral Princess | Recital Student Edition
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Seoi-bo-long Video Festival
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