Untitled. From the suite of 23 plates entitled 'Blue Rapunzel

Catalog note / 解説

This image is one of a series in which the artist plays with the fairy story of Rapunzel, a young woman who was shut away in a tower and whose only means of contact with the outside world was through her long hair which she let out of the window like a rope for her lover to climb up and reach her. For Marran 'Rapunzel' suggests a realm which is simultaneously idealised, fantastical, chaotic and quite depressing, in which women are cut off from the wider world through the demands of child- and home- care. The imagery, which suggests a contemporary Japanese aesthetic of the kind found in comic books, toys and video games, combines the abstract with vague evocations of children's toys and dome…