Happy New Year everyone! To celebrate 2012 I’ve decided to start the year off with a travel poster that’s all about ...
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Happy New Year everyone! To celebrate 2012 I’ve decided to start the year off with a travel poster that’s all about celebrating New Year’s Day. I give to you the Mummers Museum (warning, the site will sing to you)!
In the event you have no idea what a Mummer is that’s okay, I’ve lived in the city for almost ten years and I still don’t have a firm idea. What I do know is that it’s a Philadelphia tradition as old as the city (and subsequently older than the country) itself. What started off as people dressed in their finest visiting folks in the neighborhood and taking to the streets in revelry has turned into people dressed in thousands of feathers and millions of sequins parading down the middle of Philly on New Years Day.
The museum does a great job of setting up the history of the Mummers and teaching you the differences between the String Bands, Fancies and Comics. To be honest, though, I have no idea why the tradition has lasted so long or what they do the other 364 days of the year. Also, native Philadelphians are fiercely defensive about the Mummers so starting off a joke with "Your Mummer is so fat…" is likely to get you into a mess of trouble.
For the travel poster I wanted to combine the celebratory feeling of the Mummers Parade with the museum in the background and, of course, a Mummer. Originally I wanted to have several Mummers representing each of the different kinds you get to see on New Years Day and have them parading behind the string band member. Unfortunately with the poster being taller than it is wide the other Mummers got crammed in there and with the confetti and feathers and sequins it became a mess of color; as true to life as that is, it does a poor job of illustrating the experience in a flattering way. Ultimately I settled on a single Mummer so you could focus on the costume and the museum with having to compete visually with all of the other Mummers around.
Mummers Museum
by Tatyana Jula
Art Print
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Collect your choice of gallery quality Giclée, or fine art prints custom trimmed by hand in a variety of sizes with a white border for framing.
Happy New Year everyone! To celebrate 2012 I’ve decided to start the year off with a travel poster that’s all about ...
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