fairy tales

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Papilla estelar - Celestial Pabulum, 1958

Remedios Varo

“[This painting creates] an image of female nurturing… The protagonist is seated at a table inside an octagonal enclosure in the sky. She is grinding the food from the stars and feeding it to the moon in its cage. She is at once powerful and impotent. Because the moon is waning, it seems likely that she is saving it from death… A closer look at her setting reveals the source of her ambivalence; although there are steps leading from her enclosure, she could not take them unless she could walk on clouds… [She] is as caged as the moon… .”

Via The Female Quest of Remedios Varo