SCRABBLE NATIVITY
This nativity scene was inspired by a visit to an amazing exhibit of hundreds of crèches of all descriptions, along with my inability to find the nativity figurines that spoke to me while combing through thrift stores. My friend and I had a post-exhibit discussion regarding the minimum elements necessary to constitute a nativity. I started with BABY JESUS and MARY and went on from there. |
Vignette: "...a small impressionistic scene, an illustration, a descriptive passage, a short essay, a fiction, or nonfiction work focusing on one particular moment or giving impression about an idea, character, setting, mood, aspect or an object. Vignette is neither a plot nor a full narrative description, but a carefully crafted verbal sketch that might be part of some larger work or complete description in itself. Literally, vignette is a French word that means little vine..."