THE SOVEREIGNS OF THE SOUL: GODDESSES

Swiss psychoanalyst, Carl Jung, equated the Goddess/Mother Goddess archetype with the unconscious, the infinite creativity deep within the psyche that connects all of us to each other and to the universe as a whole. Jungian analyst, John P. Dourley warned that, “culturally we are an uprooted people because we have lost living touch with her vivifying and unifying energies.”

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My work is an act of spiritual archaeology. These Goddesses represent the excavation and construction of my new self. They are but one facet of the multimedia archive of a life reclaimed. I create them not as distant icons to be worshipped, but as mirrors of a resurrected self. Using a meticulous, almost obsessive process involving thousands of micro-beads, sequins, hand-painted seeds, pins, wire, heirloom jewelry and other found objects, I reconstruct the fragmented parts of the female experience into a unified, sacred whole.

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Click on each image for a detailed description.

Scroll to the bottom of this page for close-up images of these pieces.

Click here for a video of me explaining 4 of them in a show, and watch them 'speak' to each other in a short play.