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The Groom Awaits the Fetish Brides

Christine McCormack

“In India it was customary for a woman to be married to a tree……”

In these two works I explore aspects of custom and nature.

In “The Groom Awaits the Fetish Brides” it is the ritual that leads to the erotic delight exchanged with ‘The Ashoka Tree that aches to be touched by the foot of a fair woman so that it can burst into bloom”.

In ‘The Dowry Thieves” it is the symbolic expression of the ongoing harsh and shameful plight of those promised Brides, lured into a faithless marriage, stripped of their dowries and trapped in a foreign land.

Christine McCormack

“In India it was customary for a woman to be married to a tree……”

In these two works I explore aspects of custom and nature.

In “The Groom Awaits the Fetish Brides” it is the ritual that leads to the erotic delight exchanged with ‘The Ashoka Tree that aches to be touched by the foot of a fair woman so that it can burst into bloom”.

In ‘The Dowry Thieves” it is the symbolic expression of the ongoing harsh and shameful plight of those promised Brides, lured into a faithless marriage, stripped of their dowries and trapped in a foreign land.

The Groom Awaits the Fetish Brides

The Groom Awaits the Fetish Brides

Acrylic paint, coloured ink on paper
50.5 x 70.5cm
$900

The Dowry Thieves

The Dowry Thieves

Acrylic paint, ink, modelling paste on Arches paper
76 x 56cm
$980

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