Sculpture in All’s Fair: “Daughter of the Faun” by FAVNA.ART in the Aquarium

Inspiration never fades: it travels across centuries, across oceans, from soul to soul, finding a new form and a new beholder each time.

Our sculpture “Daughter of the Faun” became part of the set decoration in season 2 of All’s Fair on Hulu and Disney+, Ryan Murphy’s series starring Kim Kardashian, Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, Teyana Taylor, Matthew Noszka and others.

Sculpture in All’s Fair season 2: Sarah Paulson’s office with the aquarium and Daughter of the Faun bust by FAVNA.ART
Still from All’s Fair, Season 2, Episode 1 “The Scorpio Ball” © 20th Television. Streaming on Hulu and Disney+

The scene

The sculpture can be seen in the first episode of season 2, “The Scorpio Ball”. The aquarium with “Daughter of the Faun” stands in the middle of the office of Carrington, Sarah Paulson’s character. Here her tense conversation with Dina, played by Glenn Close, takes place, and the sculpture becomes a silent witness to the scene.

All’s Fair aquarium scene with Glenn Close and the white female bust sculpture Daughter of the Faun by FAVNA ART
Still from All’s Fair, Season 2, Episode 1 © 20th Television

A sculpture that learned to live underwater

For the scene, the set decorators envisioned placing the sculpture in an aquarium. Our works are not made for water, so especially for the filming we quickly developed a special version of “Daughter of the Faun” adapted for an aquarium. It was a new challenge for us, and we accepted it with joy.

Our heartfelt thanks to Lori Mazuer, set decorator of the series, for choosing our work and for her trust.

Bust sculpture in a fish tank from All’s Fair on Hulu, Daughter of the Faun by FAUNA ART
Still from All’s Fair, Season 2, Episode 1 © 20th Television

A relay of inspiration

For us, “Daughter of the Faun” is not only a symbol of absolute inspiration but also a relay of inspiration.

Many centuries ago, an ancient master, moved by an inspiration of his own, created a sculpture of a faun. It inspired the young Michelangelo Buonarroti, in an unrestrained burst of inspiration, to secretly carve by night his first sculpture in marble: the head of a faun. This episode in turn inspired the writer Irving Stone to describe it in his novel The Agony and the Ecstasy. The passionate description of those emotions in the book inspired the artist Kateryna Orlova (FAVNA.ART) to create the sculpture “Daughter of the Faun”. And “Daughter of the Faun”, in turn, inspired Hollywood set decorators to include it in one of the scenes of the series.

Such is the relay of inspiration: across the centuries it passes from one creator to another as an endless stream of unearthly energy that moves us to create and to bring beauty into the world.

Everyone who contemplates our works, and every one of our clients, becomes part of this relay of inspiration. We know that whatever is reflected in the mirror of the beholder’s soul always creates a new stream of light, filling the next soul with it.

Female head sculpture in the aquarium, All’s Fair episode The Scorpio Ball, Daughter of the Faun FAVNA.ART
Still from All’s Fair, Season 2, Episode 1 © 20th Television