Artist: Shoosty® Year: 2023 Medium: Duplex Printed Ink /18mm Silk
Twill Size:
50” x 50”
A hand-drawn vector graphic styled in the 1500s England. A beetle wearing pan- taloons with stripes, like a Shakespeare character, integrated with an Art Nouveau vine in the shape of a window. The bug symbolizes nature and culture, while the window symbolizes the connection be- tween the inner and outer worlds. Insects have been used as metaphors and symbols in literature and art for centuries. In Shakespeare’s plays, insects often ap- pear as agents of mischief, corruption, or transformation. In King Lear, Lear curses his daughters with “The fangs of adders, spiders, toads.” In Othello, Lago plants the seed of jealou - sy in Othello’s mind by saying “O beware, my lord, of jealousy! / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on”.
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Shakespeare Beetle Dark
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