Feminist Moon – Original Artwork

Description

Feminist Moon – Original Artwork – 2018

Framed Engraved Pebble

Inspiration

From the Greek Artemis, Hecate and Selene, the Roman Luna and Diane,, the Thracian Bendis the triple goddess of Wicca the list of moon Goddesses or goddesses associated with the moon is omnipresent in all cultures.

Further back in time, Marija Gimbutas notes the Moon phases’ presence in Goddess culture artefacts in Romania, 4500 B.C, Ukraine, 4000 B.C. and Britany 3000 B.C.

The Goddess of Laussel, 22 000 BC – France, depicts a woman holding her pregnant belly and carrying a bison horn shaped like the Moon, incised with 13 marks, the lunar year. Feminist archaeologists consider this to be a landmark of abstract thinking and a turning point in our conceptualizing time: the first visual depiction of a calendar in human history. (please note: women’s art did this)

This original artwork, inspired by millennia of matriarchal spiritual traditions inspired by the power of the Moon, Goddess cultures, prehistoric art, cave art and engraved standing stones, is part of The Goddess Way: an ongoing and ever-expending project which consists of building small portable Goddess votives and talismans.

Stepping away from patriarchal religions and practises, this piece is about reconnecting with women-centred spirituality, matriarchal ancient societies, and female-centric rituals.

This piece is crafted with love in honour of the Land and its connection with the life-force traditionally called “Mother nature”. All Goddesses of this series are created using natural and human-made material found in the local area, in celebration of West Wales’ natural beauty.

More on The Goddess Way and my spiritual feminist art practice can be found here.

Creative Process
I started The Goddess Way in 2016 when I first moved to Wales.

Coming from the big city, the spiritual practice and yearning to re-connect with Nature, the daily physical need to walk the Land,  the never-ending pleasures of treasure-searching have been a healing process for me.

The Land has always held magical properties: the power of its calmness, the reconnection with oneself and the Earth, the meditative practice of walking, pendulum motions. As such the creative process begins with the walk, the way our prehistoric foremothers had to walk the Land daily, for hunting, gathering and as their sole mode of transport. Walking reconnects us to this tradition.

The stones found are either engraved or painted or both. As an art form, this process is a spiritual one. A way for me to practice my connection to the divine, a way to pray to the Goddess and invoke the universe’s powers. Herstorically, engraved stones hold ancestral shamanic properties.

This stone is intended as both a magical, spiritual and artistic piece.

Size
18.5 / 23.5cm

Original artwork
Stamped, Signed and dated on the back.

Packaging
The Feminist Moon will arrive wrapped in a luxury kraft box.

All original artwork will be shipped with Tracked and Signed delivery method.