Fae - A Living Myth Unfolding

A collaborative photoshoot created for the documentary film about Shelley Novotny by Nate Sheppard.

FAE is a visionary, immersive art experience filmed on the healing grounds of the Healing Nature Center in Three Lakes, Wisconsin. This collection brings together movement artists, storytellers, healers, and elemental performers to embody a realm just a breath beyond the ordinary — a place where imagination, land, and spirit weave into something wholly alive.

Guided by Shelley Novotny’s role as Sovereign Creatrix, each participant stepped into an archetype shaped by earth, air, fire, water, and ancestral memory. The Fae in this world are not delicate winged creatures; they are grounded, fierce, intuitive beings connected to root, moss, ember, wind, and river. Their movements were natural and unscripted — gestures shaped by bark, breath, sound, and the shifting November light.

Filmmaker Nate Shepard, Andrew Egan, Videographer and photographer Amanda Anderson captured the unfolding in real time: the quiet attending to nature, the playful interactions, the moments of deep stillness and sudden wildness. What emerged was a living playspace — part ritual, part art installation, part collective remembrance.

The FAE collection honors the land, the people, and the unseen magic that rises when community, creativity, and nature move as one.
It is myth embodied.
It is ceremony in motion.
It is a world built from intuition, presence, and the ancient language of the woods.

A realm where the fae still dance — and where we remember that we, too, are made of earth, fire, wind, and wonder.