Fairy Tales in the Shell / Ichimoku-shu (First Thursday Collection, Vol 2)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- British Museum
"Fairy Tales in the Shell," from the First Thursday Collection, draws on the traditional association between the spiral interior of shells and the hidden worlds of imagination. The shell as container — of sound, of fantasy, of the sea's memory — gave Onchi a subject combining natural precision with metaphorical richness: the specific organic form of the shell housing an infinite imaginary interior. This combination of the tangible and the impossible was characteristic of Onchi's allegorical approach, using concrete objects as gateways to the abstract or the mythological.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Fairy Tales in the Shell / Ichimoku-shu (First Thursday Collection, Vol 2) was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Fairy Tales in the Shell / Ichimoku-shu (First Thursday Collection, Vol 2) depicts still life and abstract.
