"Usagi Tsukino" Paper size: 22" x 29" image size: 18" x 24" edition size: 12 edition variee One in a series of hopefully a great many in which I explore the many forms that the loving mother Goddess of our wise moon takes across cultures. In this half a large diptych, a lovely and relaxed nude and her furry familiar embody my interpretation of the Japanese myth of the the moon rabbit, or Tsuki No Usagi. Here, sitting in the heavens, surrounded by her many phases rests the New Moon, with her bunny companion at her feet. Formalistically, I chose to represent this figure through the marriage of my two preferred forms of printmaking: woodcut and lithography. I have drawn her in an an homage to one of my all time favorite artists and master-father of the Art Nouveau movement, Alphonse Mucha, who ( in my opinion) all but perfected the art of imortalizing the eternal feminine with a beautiful and graceful woman posing as the representation and all encompassing symbol of an ever present aspect of our natural world. Each print of this image was hand pulled from a carved reduction woodblock and then a hand-drawn lithographic stone, thus each individual edition is unique and has features that are specific to itself alone. I would be happy to answer any further questions regarding the many subtly different styles that this image was printed in.
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