Les Chants de Maldoror

For this design, Daniel Brophy was inspired by an early Surrealist poetic novel, or long prose poem, Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror). The scene captured here represents the intimate relationship between the protagonist and the shark. Here is the scene: 

"The swimmer is now in the presence of the female shark he has saved. They look into each other's eyes for some minutes, each astonished to find such ferocity in the other's eyes. They swim around keeping each other in sight, and each one saying to himself: 'I have been mistaken; here is one more evil than I.' Then by common accord they glide towards one another underwater, the female shark using its fins, Maldoror cleaving the waves with his arms; and they hold their breath in deep veneration, each one wishing to gaze for the first time upon the other, his living portrait. When they are three yards apart they suddenly and spontaneously fall upon one another like two lovers and embrace with dignity and gratitude, clasping each other as tenderly as brother and sister. Carnal desire follows this demonstration of friendship."

— Maldoror, Part II, Chapter 13.

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