Mark Timmins

 

I am putting this abstract collage by Mark Timmins as a red riding hood, I suppose because of the suggested threat in the image. Swallows numbers are going down year on year. Their incredible migration is ever more treacherous because of global warming and it's effect on wind, wave, flood and fire. 

Man's hand descending from the sky all powerful, towards this swallow headed lady fits the LRRH narrative. 

Christian Stork

 

Little Red Riding Hood collage by Christian Stork. 

Manuela Adreani

 

Manuela Adreani's Little Red Riding Hood, wonderful textures and intricate patterns.

Parya Salehi

 

Parya Salehi's interpretation of Little Red finding the wolf in grandma's bed. 

Monty Lee

 An imagined book cover by Monty Lee. 

Angela Smyth II

Angela Smyth's amorous wolf. 
 

Martin Jarrie II

 

The power struggle is real, Martin Jarrie.

Paths of hair and tears

 

With this piece of applique and sashiko I used the 'Little Red' figures as arrows to point along the paths. I chose the printed fabric on the paths as I thought it looked like hair.  The blue watery print as tears. The wolves eyes are mother of pearl one a beguiling flower, the other an evil slit.

So much of the little red fable is concerned with loss of innocence, the persistent threat of, and real, danger to young females, and coming of age. The paths that we take in life are so often arbitrary and yet when you are younger they have so much impact on shaping us and our direction in life. Hair and tears seemed to fit for this piece, I was abused on three separate occasions by three separate males as a child / teen the nonsensical injustice of this and the marks these events left are not a daily burden, but they are a presence, something that scarred. 

As an artist I use and often return to the little red imagery and story to explore injustice, sexuality and to make sense of events in my life, just now it feels like a hairy, scary path. 

Emanuele Tozzoli

 

The last Red Riding Hood of the apocalypse works by Emanuele Tozzoli.

Nishi Shuku

Two wolf illustrations by Japanese artist Nishi Shuku