In the past few years, I have really been connecting to the Divine Feminine, to this energy that is unleashing everywhere in the world, if you know where to look. And it is so so necessary, women everywhere are organising circles (I am one of them), red tents, celebrating their cycles and periods, creating rituals, altars, experimenting with witchcraft. All of this has been inspiring my work of late very much. This piece, with its curves and layers upon layers, is a representative of this energy. I see it very much as a piece of jewellery, delicate and magical, like a talisman.
I am writing a children’s story at the moment, and I am very much speaking of the Divine Feminine in that story.
Here are some of the Greek Goddesses I am drawing inspiration from:
Demeter: Mother of Persephone. The Earth Mother. “She is tall and wide of shoulder and hip. She’s bountiful, her breasts are always full of milk. They say a river of stars from the milky way flows through her” Clarissa Pinkola Estès, “The creative fire” audiobook
Hecate: Goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, the moon, ghosts and necromancy. She holds two torches.
Selene: Goddess of the moon. Lunar sphere or crescent crown upon her head
Baubo (my favourite): baxdy, fun-loving, sexually liberated, very wise. Baubo’s face is in her belly, with her vulva forming her chin