May the kitsune spirit guide you Painting by Justine Formentelli

Painting: Acrylic, collage on Canvas.

Shortlisted for the 2015 Gemini Art Prize
This piece has been inspired by a recent trip to Japan, its many foxes encountered along the way (mostly in sculpture form) and also by Miyazaki's animations films where nature and animals' spirit have a powerful influence in human lives.
I also wanted to explore the very japanese contrast between urbanisation and nature, between familiar, lived in territories and the call of the wild and the Unknown.