Matriarchal

Posted on Instagram on June 28, 2018

This one, born on a Full Moon, is for the female line.
For those ties forged by blood, ancestry and sisterhood.
For all the strong beautiful unique women that I met in the last years, for the gift they brought me - to see and experience what a powerful thing a woman can be.
It's for the women who feel deep and dream big, and for my swelling heart as I work together with them.
It's for the women who came before me and left me field notes to navigate life - they are artists, poets, writers, singers.
It's for the mostly forgotten women in my own lineage: you may have been deemed unworthy and your life and names may not have been passed down to me, but I see you. I honour you.
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Sky blue and red are colors I associate with Goddess. I can't tell exactly why, it just happens.
A Sleeping Beauty turquoise, two teardrop garnets - sky and blood.
A skull carved in a pearl - the memory and the ancestors.
A brass heart - because of the ability women have to live in their heart space and accomplish incredible tasks following it.
Leaves because of Nature, the great Mother and nourisher.
Snakes, for they belong to Her.
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So much passed through my mind's eye while assembling this. Memories of Mayan iconography together with dreamcatchers.
I can say this one had a mind of its own and basically came forward, demanding the least thinking on my side, and mostly the work of my hands.
I like when it happens. When I am the hollow bone for things greater than me.