Name: SF&CO Original Bag Story
Client: Spring Finn & Co
Work: Writing, collaboration for studio set design
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date: 2018
This fictional tale about Spring Finn & Co’s Original Bag was inspired by 1001 Nuits and other folk tales, as well as textiles that Talin Spring has collected through the years. The story inspired a studio set design
Client: Spring Finn & Co
Work: Writing, collaboration for studio set design
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date: 2018
This fictional tale about Spring Finn & Co’s Original Bag was inspired by 1001 Nuits and other folk tales, as well as textiles that Talin Spring has collected through the years. The story inspired a studio set design
by Talin Spring for a SF&CO Holiday Bazaar in 2019.
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After a year and three days of rest, the voyage began. By now, the six elephants were all too familiar with the endeavor. In their prime, it had taken only 19 days. Now overly ripe and wrinkled, their eyes shaded by weighty eyelids, they struggled to complete it in 30. The task itself was simple—in type: the pachyderms were to take Queen Izdihar and her original bag across three mountains, five valleys, and seven lakes. After crossing the seventh lake they would find Murad, the most knowledgeable leather worker in all the land East of Bashir. There, Izdihar would have her original bag imbibed with a sacred oil which protected her entire kingdom for a year and three days.
