Hélène Planquelle - Tentacles of Love - In the Dark Deep, II

This series of works revisits the Japanese erotic imagery representing women in a love embrace with octopuses, most notably "The Dream of the Fisherman's wife" by Hokusai, to explore the sprawling nature of women's love and their metaphoric associations with shapeshifting sea creatures.

It is an oil painting on wood panel with epoxy resin on the octopus parts only. The piece thus displays an interplay of texture between the mat skin areas of the female body and the liquid octopus parts that is not visible on the pictures.

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The work is framed in a black American crate and will be shipped in a custom-made wooden shipping crate.