{"product_id":"the-gathering","title":"The Gathering","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Gathering\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e began with something very human, even though the characters are rabbits.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI love watching what happens when people come together. There is always a little theatre in it — one person talking, another listening, someone quietly observing, someone slightly outside the conversation but still completely part of it. I wanted these three rabbits to feel like individuals caught in one of those moments.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe poppies and exaggerated colour came because I didn’t want the scene to feel naturalistic. I wanted it to have its own world — joyful, a little strange, full of personality and humour. The rabbits are larger than life because, in my mind, they are not really about rabbits at all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey are about us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor me, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Gathering\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is about our instinct to belong, communicate and share space with one another, while still bringing our own very different personalities to the group.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI hope people first respond to the colour and energy, and then begin to recognise something familiar in the relationships between the three figures — perhaps a friendship, a family, or simply the wonderfully complicated way we all gather together.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ilana McBain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51717337186619,"sku":"IM-TG-130-LE3","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0850\/0346\/9115\/files\/ilana-mcbain-the-gathering-rabbit-poppy-contemporary-art_jpg.jpg?v=1789849069","url":"https:\/\/www.ilanamcbain.com\/products\/the-gathering","provider":"ilana McBain Publications","version":"1.0","type":"link"}