The Unicorn Out Of Captivity

2021
Lenticular print, 13 x 9 inches

One day amid the pandemic, I woke up thinking of the celebrated tapestry art "The Unicorn in Captivity (from the Unicorn Tapestries)" at the Met Cloisters. I was not fond of the fact that people are contemplating a captured bleeding unicorn. To free the unicorn, I used photoshop to erase its chain, fence, and blood until it was released and healed. The erased fence appears illusory thanks to the optical property of the lenticular print, which is a metaphor suggesting that self-instituting is merely an illusion. In parallel with the extended self-isolation throughout the pandemic, it is a meditation on self-liberation and an invitation of unleashing the healing magic within oneself.