Here I was thinking of pictures of tigers, coming out of the jungle foliage. Angela Carter has a story in her Bloody Chamber collection, in which she addresses the subject of “second sex” and the writings of some thinkers who claimed women were not made in the image of God. The logical conclusion of the story is that the women join the beasts in wild otherness. I’m not sure that it’s so much an exile or a removal from the image of God that would make a person want to turn to the wilds, though –for either gender. For me, there’s something good, mysterious, exciting in the wilds of nature. I wanted to make the face coming out of some sort of darkness, something chaotic, but remaining strong and wild despite everything.
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