vessel sculpture

Woman/Body/Vessel

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“The metaphor of goddess as nourishing vessel is as early as pottery itself.”

Marija Gimbutas

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These pieces explore the clay vessel as a receptive container for Shakti, or feminine energy.

The clay vessel appeared in 2003, at first on paper and then moving into clay—revealing the feminine principle and the need to receive its wisdom and contain its energy in the form of the vessel.

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The ritual of containing the feminine voice in clay vessel sculpture animated physical matter in reenactment of containing a creative source and connection with Nature inside myself. The more source information I could channel into the vessel, unfiltered and shaped by me, the closer I felt to nature and could then experience myself co -creating in a relational way with clay, the skin of the earth and her most abundant element.

 

The power and principle of the feminine is the relatedness to one self and to the inner laws inherent in the Nature of things. The practice and ritual of containing spirit and matter in the vessel is a way of being in the world where one never feels alone. You are  part of something much larger, call them archetypes or the collective unconscious or source, whatever, you are part of something that cannot be explained but is real none the less. It is a world of ever unfolding and immense possibilities.

 

I hope the work reflects this