Concha, madre, Raven


A few nice how to have sex images I found:

The Raven / Concha de la madre

Image by LeJyBy

from Alberto Navarette, after a drawing of the sculpture from Bill Reid, presented at the museum of Anthropology of British Columbia in Vancouver.

The drawing represents the main god of the Haidas, the native indians of British Columbia, discovering and freeing the first humans from inside a shell on the beach. It is inspired by a sculpture from Bill Reid ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Reid ), which I saw many times in the museum of antropology of UBC in Vancouver, and which you can see now on all canadian 20$ bills. I always loved this sculpture, so much that I chose it for my second piece of copper art ( www.flickr.com/photos/lejyby/3234874915/ ). I was too short on time to make another one in time for Yasaman's wedding so I had it done by my professor

It is symbolic for many reasons. I like how the legend coincides with the alternate thesis of the evolution of modern humans as seashore dwellers who developped the (unique among primates) ability to hold their breath (for swimming under water), bipedism (all primates walk on two legs in water), the reduction of hair (comparable to other, but not all, aquatic mammals), and ate a lot of sea-food with all the nutritient to develop their brain. Given that this theory is now aiming for leadership after being denigrated for years, I like the irony that "primitive" legend had a bit of it ;) Second, I like how the two art forms mix quite naturally, between an ancient story from the far North America and the art form from some South American natives. With different stories and culture, human can interact and create new and beautiful mixes, and I think those are ideas dear to Yasaman as well, so here she is now with some bit of south america for her walls :)

For the record, Alberto calls this drawing "La concha de la madre" (the mother sea-shell), which is very rude in Spanish, since "Concha" means shell, but also stands for the feminine sex...








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