For my next project, I found inspiration in old Italian folklore. The city where my family is from, Forli, has lots of mythology surrounding. One story in particular depicts the city's only source of water being guarded by a ferocious dragon, and the only way for the townspeople to retrieve water is to lure the dragon away using sacrificial sheep as well as women (chosen through a lottery). When a princess is chosen to be the bait, she is rescued by St. George, who slays the dragon. I'm not too excited about the idea of women (or sheep) being sacrificed to dragons, so I created a model Bergamasca sheep, a breed native to northern Italy. The sheep I made was created out of twine and braided paper.
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