El sueño de la mujer del pescador / The dream of fisherman´s wife Sculpture

The "dream of the fisherman's wife" in Japanese Tako no ama 蛸 と 海 女, it is a woodcut made in 1814 by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokurai. The work shows a woman on a beach. Intertwining your body in a sexual attitude with two octopuses. The little one appears wrapping the woman's nipple while kissing her, while the elder practices a cunnilingus. There would be a multitude of appreciations and interpretations of the work. For me, oblivious to the clear sexual content of it, it produces a feeling that evokes loneliness. The title of the work is very illustrative in this aspect, "the dream of the fisherman's wife". It is an erotic dream, yes. But in my opinion it is not a lascivious dream promulgating pure sexual desire, but, as I have said before, it is a melancholic dream of longing and loneliness. And I say this because, analyzing the situation and putting yourself in the place of the fisherman's wife, can you be more alone when your husband goes out to sea? This does not happen only in Japan. The women of sailors and fishermen know that when their husbands move to the sea it may take months to see them again. They may never come back. For that reason I believe that the fact of being lying on a beach surrounded by waves makes connection with the proximity and the connection with the sea lived by his family. The wife and the husband. And octopuses, in turn, a part of emphasizing such marine connection can make reference to her husband. The kiss and the cunnilingus practiced by the cephalopods clearly identified the desire of the wife to return with her husband. And the tentacles of these octapods can resemble the nets that the fisherman throws into the sea. These involve your body in the same way that the nets do with fishing. The artwork I present today is, as you can see, a tribute to the Ukiyo é and the master Hokusai. It is a woodcarving made of cedar and Flanders pine tree wood where I show my particular vision of this amazing Hokusai´s artwork. I sincerely hope you liked it.

Sculpture:wood carving on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:17.6 W x 11.1 H x 2.8 D in

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