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Archival ink on Hahnemühle William Turner. 20 x 20 inches.
In the spring of 2023, I had an aesthetic immersion that took me beyond myself, beyond what I thought I knew: a life-changing experience. Working with three models in Mexico, I found myself making visual commentary about intangible ideas that I had always known and yet never fully acknowledged. I was awash in the feminine. I felt there were messages about the feminine soul that needed to be heard and translated into visual images at this particularly fraught moment for humankind. I continued to find inspiration during the 2024 election election season in which there was an extraordinary centering of women’s bodies in our American presidential election. In an electorate deeply divided by gender, biological essentialist arguments about what the feminine and the masculine mean called for reflection. This work is my reflection. There are deeper meanings beneath the surface beauty of the perennial female form in my art. Society needs the breath of the feminine spirit to bring life and joy, the capacity to feel, to create art, to connect deeply, and to trust. In the Jungian sense, the feminine spirit – Lo Sagrado Femenino -- belongs to both men and women. We cannot be whole without acknowledging these virtues and making room for them in ourselves and in our society. Through my work, I want to give viewers the courage to restore their relationship to the female soul. It is a new venture for me. In the words of T.S. Eliot, I’m in the fight to recover what has been lost and found, and lost again and again.
Archival ink on Hahnemühle William Turner. 20 x 20 inches.
In the spring of 2023, I had an aesthetic immersion that took me beyond myself, beyond what I thought I knew: a life-changing experience. Working with three models in Mexico, I found myself making visual commentary about intangible ideas that I had always known and yet never fully acknowledged. I was awash in the feminine. I felt there were messages about the feminine soul that needed to be heard and translated into visual images at this particularly fraught moment for humankind. I continued to find inspiration during the 2024 election election season in which there was an extraordinary centering of women’s bodies in our American presidential election. In an electorate deeply divided by gender, biological essentialist arguments about what the feminine and the masculine mean called for reflection. This work is my reflection. There are deeper meanings beneath the surface beauty of the perennial female form in my art. Society needs the breath of the feminine spirit to bring life and joy, the capacity to feel, to create art, to connect deeply, and to trust. In the Jungian sense, the feminine spirit – Lo Sagrado Femenino -- belongs to both men and women. We cannot be whole without acknowledging these virtues and making room for them in ourselves and in our society. Through my work, I want to give viewers the courage to restore their relationship to the female soul. It is a new venture for me. In the words of T.S. Eliot, I’m in the fight to recover what has been lost and found, and lost again and again.
