I have created a collection of celebratory marching and clapping lights in honor of old fairytale characters returning to their forest, older, modern and wiser. My works involve the psychological experience of recognizing accomplishment. I explore the set of emotions encountered through self acceptance. Like the lessons taught in a fairytale, we are cautioned to avoid the pitfalls of life. Outdated as the tales and our stories get, we still like to re-visit them. By abandoning learned behaviors, emotions can overwhelm and sabotage us. My art links the relationship between long held traditions and contemporary freedoms. I symbolize seeking balance between the two with combining objects of nostalgia posed with the modern figure in a position of empowerment and encouragement. Unconventional scale and proportion heightens the humorous effect and underscores uncomfortable learned ideals of “proper”. I encourage the viewer to explore the sensation of clapping for their past, present and future and ask what is the level of comfort experienced?