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Beware the Woman Bold Enough to Walk Alone at Dusk, 2024
A Photograph by Kira Gondeck-Silvia

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This is a print from an original drawing made with color pencil and Dr Ph Martin Watercolor on Arches paper. It features a kitsune, a mythological fox yōkai in Japanese folklore. There was a common medieval belief that any woman encountered alone at night, particularly at dusk, had the potential for being a shapeshifting fox. The legend goes on to say that if a person could capture a fox’s pearl (which some stories claim houses the fox’s soul) the fox would become slave to her captor. I became fascinated with the idea of a way to harness and control a powerful woman, showing a real fear against that particular potential.

At the Inari-jinja Shrine near Tokyo, the Oji Kitsune-no-gyoretsu Fox Parade is held every New Years Eve. People come dressed as foxes to reenact when in 1603, it was believed that foxes came to the shrine and disguised themselves as humans. My husband and I were lucky enough to visit the shrine on New Years Eve and partake in the festivals and it was an amazing experience. People pretended to be foxes pretending to be human.

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Open Edition | print of a color pencil and watercolor drawing, 8" x 10" x 1"