After a run of solitary craftspeople-in-quiet, I wanted pure joy and pure magic — a fae queen who is HAPPY to rule, conjuring life instead of guarding grief. The Andean copper against Icelandic grey-green eyes gives a face I've never seen before, and I let the couture literally grow — leaves, ivy, blossom — so the woman and the world are one organism. The visible spell of butterfly-light is the gasp. — Vesper