2 DECADES + POST-CHRISTIAN ALTER IMAGES
Reconnecting the female body to its sacred ancestor, the goddess, has become a leitmotif in my work for the past decade.The work flowing from this continuum is titled Post-Christian Alter Images (Alter instead of altar to suggest alternative).The work, although influenced by sacred imagery, is not about faith or religion but reflects a personal journey and feminist perspective. I create a personal iconography that borrows from sacred art and applies symbolist ideas to images that place the female body in relation to goddess.
And I like to ponder the question of how our interior landscape would have
been different if the pervading spiritual icon was a woman giving birth rather
than a man martyred on a cross.Would our relationship to the body have
been different and would misogyny have been able to cast its two thousand
year long shadow?
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