The Amazon & The Escape Of The Unicorn

The Amazon & The Escape Of The Unicorn is a “contemporary tapes-try’ done in the typical gothic style of the late Middle Ages, that is, mille-fleurs or ‘thousand flowers.’ In this version, instead of a virgin being used to lure the unicorn, the Queen of the Amazons is depicted hunting the unicorn, who escapes into the present dimension. To portray this, the negative of the image was computerized with a program that suggested the tapestry texture and printed on the plastic, which then covers the work below. A circle is cut in the plastic surrounding the unicorn so he is able to escape into the present.