Giuliadreambox | Handmade paper theatres

Alice is waiting for Santa - by Giulia Adriana Leone

Giulia Adriana Leone has a lifelong long love for drawing and painting. After moving to Florence, she has cultivated her passion and knowledge of renaissance art. She has found a way to express this passion, in little worlds that tell a story in scenes and images in her wonderful dreambox; "vivid cinematic glimpses which look at sense and sensibility to tiny theatrical scenes of plays that will capture and enchant in amazement, the spectator. Evoking the same spellbinding enchanted charm we felt as children once upon a time.

Creating a dreambox is a laborious and long process, this inspiration stems from dioramas of old theatre cards and pop-up books. To create a dreambox from start to finish, takes between two to three weeks. The most challenging stage that takes the most time is research, study and
producing the images. For this reason I gather and collect my research from children’s books and art publications. Once they are chosen the images are reproduced, arranged, printed, glued or pasted on a card paper or card board and cut again, one by one, with the utmost care and attention to the finest detail. Thus, in the end, everything is ready to enter and play its part in its little world inside the box. Hence, giving life to my dreambox."

Giulia Adriana Leone, via dei Serragli 41r, 50124 Firenze, Italy
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Christmas by Giulia Adriana Leone