{"product_id":"the-handmaids-tale-where-the-seeds-began-print","title":"The Handmaid's Tale \"Where the Seeds Began\" Print","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale — Fine Art Print\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by Margaret Atwood’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this black-and-white work explores the familiar form of the Handmaid’s robe as something no longer fixed or contained.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe robe loosens. It lifts. It becomes a wave.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcross the composition, folds of cloth dissolve into a tide-like rhythm. Fragments emerge and disappear within the movement: barbed wire threads through the image; flowers reference the Commander’s garden; a pomegranate hangs open, its seeds suspended within the flow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe symbolism is quiet but deliberate — fertility, confinement, resistance and the myth of Persephone: descent and return, and cycles that cannot be permanently closed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt the centre of the work is a figure that refuses to remain still. She is not simply contained by the robe, but appears to rise through it, carried within the movement rather than bound by it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe robe becomes landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe landscape becomes force.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is not an image of despair.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is the moment just before the turn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFine art print from the original black-and-white composition that formed the basis of the later hand-cut papercut and Studio Edition which you can see \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesvoce.uk\/products\/the-handmaids-tale-by-margaret-atwood-where-the-seeds-began\"\u003eHERE\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Voce","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58754535391616,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/0665\/1135\/files\/handmaidstalepapercutprint.jpg?v=1787414895","url":"https:\/\/www.jamesvoce.uk\/products\/the-handmaids-tale-where-the-seeds-began-print","provider":"James Voce","version":"1.0","type":"link"}