Halloween has come and gone – even if the candy is still sticking around!
When thinking about the feel of the world Penelope inhabits, my mind often changes, based on the type of thing Penelope might be up to, or how I imagine it might look or feel to her and her friends …
Halloween is ghostly. It’s a bit magical. The streets are transformed, from safe and predictable, to spooky and unpredictable.
Inverted, one might even say …
Here, the kids stand, bathed in the glow of another open doorway. Or maybe the glow is reflected off the treasure they’ve come to collect? The kids themselves are re-made, their identities fluid and ephemeral, like the drawings they spent so much time sketching out weeks earlier as they eagerly anticipated and planned their Halloween alter-ego adventures …
Penelope Bloom 