This year’s IAF Interfictions Auction is in full swing, and I was totally thrilled to see that someone had made an item based on my story in the Annex, To Set Before the King.

The artist, Lisa Bergin, took two disparate elements of the story (bees and meat cleavers) and needle-felted something that looks like the sort of toy Sweeney Todd would have played with as a kid (which fits beautifully, since there are also children in this story, and they figure out early on that fairy tales are about as comforting as a bee with a cleaver behind its back).*

I think it’s such a quirky and subversive little piece, and I love that she took two images and created a new and totally different image with them, which is pretty much what interstitial art is all about. Thanks to to the artist for making my day!

* I like my fairy tales like I like my felted-wool sculptures: covered in beeeeeees!