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A weirdo's wife's dream

    Having climbed the hierarchical ladder from "my bunny" to "the tiger in bed", a little 
lingering on the white horse as the prince's primary marker, we recognize the obvious - women are attached to animals by a multitude of sexual threads. But usually, the beast was a kind of character, a mask that tried on a man. Now there's no one to measure up to, and animals have taken the path of sex on their own.

    Feminism and emancipation (whatever we mean by them) have one unfortunate 
that the vast, mysterious, and frightening male world that had fascinated women for thousands of years has ceased to exist. Previously, the boundaries of the worlds passed along the threshold of the house - inside she felt like the keeper of the hearth and the absolute mistress, but outside began his territory. Women now have learned many things: mastered men's work and clothing, men's hobbies and habits. The once 
giant universe had shrunk to the size of a urinal.
   The masculine world found itself studied, recycled, and eventually desacralized. The mystery... the mystery. Women's lauded curiosity has played a cruel trick on girls. After all, they still want to dream. But they are no longer interested in daydreaming about men who are comprehensible and defeated. 
   And then wild nature comes to the aid of a rebellious soul. Let's see a lion, a shrew... 
a shrew. They have a life of their own, and they don't want to share their secrets, not even with the ubiquitous with the ubiquitous BBC cameramen. That's why nature is called wild because it doesn't fit the usual schemes.
   Wild animals used to be one of the attributes of a man's world (they were used to protect the herd, hunt. They have become the object of attention and interest. Women find in them the main thing that has not remained in men: mystery. It is no wonder that in dreams when the flight of fancy is not restricted by any framework or social 
And is it surprising that in dreams where the flight of fancy is not restricted by any boundaries or social norms, animals walk away from TV screens and the covers of calendars into a maiden's bed?

   The project is the result of a creative collaboration between artist Maria Arendt and Ph. D. in biology Ivan Kvasov. The traditional female technique - embroidery - is stealthy and touching. It touches a nerve not just to to not only prick it but also to double-stitch it, men were invited to join the embroidery team.

Maria Arendt, Ivan Kvasov

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