vessel

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 vessel image as a receptive container for Shakti, or feminine energy. The clay vessel appeared in 2003, at first on paper with these vessel images 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.

 

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 through both image and form 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