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Competition

Magic touch

11 October 2014

9:00 AM

11 October 2014

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 2868 you were invited to take something mundane and filter it through the lens of magic realism.

I have been meaning to set this comp since the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez earlier this year. Master of the fantastical, Marquez conjures a world in which the arrival of one character is heralded by a swarm of yellow butterflies, the death of another by a light rain of yellow flowers.

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