Monday, February 13, 2023

A Shrine (and a new book) for Spider Woman


 And a new version of SPIDER WOMAN'S HANDS, available through Blurb.com.


"Tse Che Nake, Thought Woman, 
the Spider
is sitting in Her room now
thinking up a good story.
I'm telling you the story
She is thinking."

.......Pueblo Proverb

Saturday, December 3, 2022

A Shrine for the Lost: The Sixth Extinction​




Funded by the Puffin Foundation, my SHRINE FOR THE LOST:  THE  6TH EXTINCTION was installed November 1, 2022 for Dia de los Muertos.     It includes a Book, four 8 foot tall wall-hung Panels, and an accompanying Video made in collaboration with Tucson artist Kathy Keler. I am very grateful to Kathy for the video especially.


It will be shown at the 2023 Parliament of World Religions, and it is my hope that the installation will travel to other venues as an educational Memorial. 

                                              https://youtu.be/5GE5kxwhxFw                                             


Monday, January 24, 2022

New Masks

"Quan Yin"  


"Ceres"


                                                                 Lada, Ukrainian Goddess

Asaye,  Eithiopia

Butterfly Woman

Selkie

flower Deva

Spider Woman

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Joanna Hearing Music - for Joanna Brouk

My friend the composer Joanna Brouk always said that she heard music before she wrote it down.  This painting is in honor of her.......I miss her very much.  She passed away in 2017.

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

"Our Lady of the Shards" - Mosaic Shrines (2018 - 2019)

                 

  The Series is  collectively called "Our Lady of the Shards" as they are meant to honor that which has been buried, lost or broken, and is now re-surfacing to the contemporary world to tell us the ancient stories that we need now.   Working in a pottery studio, I saw many beautiful broken pottery shards lying about, and I began to think of artists sometimes being "mythic archeologists", uncovering and resurrecting the lost and forgotten lives and wisdom of the past, piecing it together to find the shapes and reveal the mysteries.  Or it could be said that the Spirits of the past are rising from the broken shards, insistant on being heard and honored, because they are once again truly needed.

Shrine to the Ancient Midwives

"Our Lady of the Forgotten Midwives"  remembers the enduring love of Millenia of Ancestral Midwives, the women whose hands brought each generation into the world.   

The Memory Keeper II

"The Memory Keeper" was inspired by a song called "Water from Another Time", which speaks eloquently of the wisdom and gifts of the elderly, and of previous times, needed to nourish each new generation.    


Our Lady of the Desert Spring

Our Lady of the Desert Spring is a bas relief ceramic mosaic that is  a  personal Icon loosely inspired by traditional  Catholic Iconic imagery.  It is meant to be accompanied by a prayer or poem, in both English and Spanish, and is also designed to include a  mosaic "frame" or border as part of the presentation.  "Our Lady of the Desert Spring" also represents an invocation to the "Numina" or "spirit of place" of the desert. Water is the true life blood of the desert,  its most precious resource.  



Hecate




The Black Madonna

The Black Madonna reflects my personal sense that this widely archetypal image, a source of many pilgrimages to sacred places throughout Europe for thousands of years,  represents the Earth Mother, the dark rich soil that sustains us




The Bone Goddess




Old Masks




The Memory Keeper I



The Weaver



Shrine for the Forgotten Midwives



Our Lady of the Waters




Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Exhibit of the Masks of the Goddess - Closing the Project




In May I will be concluding the 20 year MASKS OF THE GODDESS PROJECT, which began as an Invocation to the Goddess at Reclaiming's 20th Annual Spiral Dance in San Francisco in 1999.  I have been so privileged to collaborate with Priestesses, Playwrights, Dancers, Ritualists, Community Organizers, Photographers, Artists, Photographers, Choreographers, Writers, Singers, and Psychologists in sharing the stories and  "Faces of the Goddess".  So many from around the country participated in the Project - please know that your spirit and contribution will be there, in every mask and photograph.   

The Opening will be May 5th, and I'll give a small slide presentation, and afterwards I'm delighted that there will several performances, including Evelie Delfino Sales Posch to sing her beautiful songs, and mask wearers Drissana and Vibra to invoke the Goddesses.  Perhaps we'll see you there!

I have also just revised and added a great deal of new material to my book 
"The Masks of the Goddess", which is available at  Blurb.com.
 You can turn pages in a "Preview" at this link:
 http://www.blurb.com/b/9380795-the-masks-of-the-goddess 

Thank you once again for sharing your creativity and love of the Goddess with so many, and especially, with me.  May the Masks  continue their work. 

Lauren 
www.masksofthegoddess.com