A Family Portrait—Woodcut Printmaking
This work portrays a couple in the form of gazelles, with the male assuming a position of nursing, not as an act of intimacy, but as an exposure of a parasitic relationship in which traditional roles are reversed. In this scene, the female is not a symbol of motherhood but a partner reduced to a constant functional role: giver, nurturer, and available.
The male gazelle is presented as a being that consumes emotion and energy, relying entirely on the other, even in the most basic forms of existence. This offering is not met with reciprocity or independence, but with a complete submission to emotional and physical dependency.
This piece does not address motherhood or marriage per se, but rather deconstructs the hidden structures within relationships that thrive on unbalanced dynamics.
