The Fox Woman | Victoria Olt

2020

Handmade watercolor on paper.

18 x 24 in
46 x 61 cm + frame included for free in shipments within Estonia

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This Inuit story of the fox woman follows a hunter, who returns home one day to find that his place has been cleaned and there’s been food prepared for him. This happens a few more times, until one day he notices a fox run into his house. He sees the fox taking off its skin turning into a woman and hanging her fox skin on a clothing line. The hunter realizes that this fox woman is the one that’s been doing all the cleaning and cooking for him. He decides to take the fox as a wife and they continue on in marital bliss until one day the hunter notices a strange smell in the house. She answers that it was her natural fox smell and says that if he is going to judge her, then she doesn’t wanna be with him. She then puts on her fox skin and runs into the woods to never be seen again.