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Amazon is a new sculpture that I have been working on and off for a while now. It seemed to change as life threw its little life changing hurdles at me and this piece reflects that.
It is made up of a large goose egg, from one of my own geese, which has been, pierced, stitched, and wrapped. A piece of a snail shell representing a breast pokes out of the wrapping of the figure.
She is balanced precariously on the narrow part of the egg, braced for a fall. Gently placed on a piece of plated sinew which sits atop a wooden base.
The face of the sculpture is ceramic. Specifically it has been pit-fired and polished with bees wax. She is almost balding but the illusion of hair is created by again wrapping her face with plated sinew. Wrapped in a false comfort.
The Amazon women of history would cut off a breast to make them better archers, better warriors, to take lives.
Now as women in some cases we have to have our breast or breasts cut off to save our own lives, this is the new Amazon.
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