One of our wonderful members, Debra Phillips has written a paper entitled ‘Once Upon a Time and Narratives of the Imagined Future.’ In this paper, she explores how the term “Once upon a time” used in an Australian setting is more about a future possibility than a European past.
Debra Phillips continues to use fairy stories as the major themes for painting and writing. She is currently engaged in academic research to find the relationship between fairy stories and the imagined future.
View her paper here: Once Upon a Time and Narratives of the Imagined Future – Debra Phillips
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