Description
In Where is mom going?, a huge female figure is carried aloft, turning the ordinary question of where a mother is going into a grotesque aerial event. Francisco Goya’s Where Is Mom Going? gives the impossible scene a familiar, almost domestic phrase. That incongruity is central to its humor, making the fantastic journey seem part of an everyday routine.
Published in 1799 as plate 65 of Los Caprichos, the etching and aquatint give the airborne body a startling weight. Goya joins the improbable idea of flight to the physical labor of carrying, keeping the scene substantial even as it leaves the ground. The image’s force comes from the mismatch between its casual title and extraordinary participants. Familiar relationships persist in distorted form, allowing the language of family life to become newly strange within a world of witchcraft and unreason.
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