Emma Cousin
Shakuhachi
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Year | 2020 |
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Medium | Ink and pencil on paper |
Dimensions | 29.8 x 21.1 cm |
About the work
Shakuhachi is an instrument made of bamboo. I was thinking about this hollowed out bamboo and reading about Jung’s ideas of dreams being like a bird – alluding to wanting to escape life. These images and ideas, of the wind moving through a shape to make a sound and a structure that is like hollow bird bones were the beginnings of this drawing. This evolved and ended in thinking about how snakes ‘walk’, perhaps by using their ribs to move along.