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Madama Butterfly By Karen Chappelow 88h X 50
  • Madama Butterfly By Karen Chappelow 88h X 50
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Madama Butterfly by Karen Chappelow-50x88cm

Madama Butterfly a Japanese tragedy in which sex, betrayal and suicide play the central theme. Pinkerton an American naval officer who marries and impregnates a Cio Cio San (butterfly). He returns to America with no word to Cio Cio San and marries. Upon hearing of a child he returns with new wife in tow to take the child back to America. Cio Cio San choosing to die rather than live in shame commits Seppuku. This story a tragic story of colonialism, perceived advantages and imbalances of power and the added contradiction of the ritual death being an honourable death, taking extreme psychological courage to claw back some honour. I have subverted it giving her the power and the bloody blade a suggestion of the death of Pinkerton, the symbol in her hand denoting freedom

Madama Butterfly

Karen Chappelow

Original price was: AUD$850.Current price is: AUD$765.
Size: 50w x 88h x 3d cms
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Madama Butterfly by Karen Chappelow-50x88cm

Madama Butterfly a Japanese tragedy in which sex, betrayal and suicide play the central theme. Pinkerton an American naval officer who marries and impregnates a Cio Cio San (butterfly). He returns to America with no word to Cio Cio San and marries. Upon hearing of a child he returns with new wife in tow to take the child back to America. Cio Cio San choosing to die rather than live in shame commits Seppuku. This story a tragic story of colonialism, perceived advantages and imbalances of power and the added contradiction of the ritual death being an honourable death, taking extreme psychological courage to claw back some honour. I have subverted it giving her the power and the bloody blade a suggestion of the death of Pinkerton, the symbol in her hand denoting freedom

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