Fertile Ground

Exhibition Proposal

All art is a journey but this show represents the evolution of the self of an artist and a woman. When I started fabricating sculpture, I worked in welded steel. I loved, and still do, the feeling of being able to do anything after being able to cut and weld steel. The world was at my fingertips.

Around the same time this feeling took hold I began studying archeological evidence of woman centered cultures from thousands of years ago. This coupled with my background in psychology led me to imagine femininity in a different way. My materials began shifting from steel to resin, plaster and glass and my pieces shifted from demonstrating the archeological woman to examining the female archetype.

What did it mean to be a woman? What was the historical basis for womanhood? What were the psychological underpinnings of womanhood?

Why the title, Fertile Ground? My research and sense of womanhood historically and to the present were that her primary attribute was being connected to the Earth. Although this connection gave her strength, throughout relatively recent history she had been boxed in by perceptions and misperceptions. As a result women felt themselves fragile and breakable when in fact they were powerful due to their connection with earth, fertility and emotion.   

The pieces in this proposed show exemplify woman's connection to the earth, how women can turn seeming fragility into strength and how to discover the potency of emotional intelligence

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