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| Garden of Earth: wall piece, 24"x18", stains | Flying Free: 24"x14", stains | Communion Tree: 18"x12", stains | Tree Woman: 46"tall, stains | Large Tree Woman: 56" tall, stains | ||||
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| Full Bloom: 24"x16", raku | Full Bloom (back) | Branching Woman: 24"x16", stains | Branching Woman (back) | Snake Dream: wall hanging, 14"x12", raku | ||||
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| Priestess Queen: 30" tall, stains | Priestess Queen (inside) | Knight: 30" tall, stains | Knight (inside) | Praying Woman: 10"x8", stains | ||||
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| Mother Fountain: 20" in diameter, glaze | Mother Fountain (alt view) | Nest Rest: 12"x10", raku |
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Garden
of Earth
A body of work by Dakini Lynn Marlow, Spring 2002
I am working with the theme of embodiment. My intention is to express the concept and experience of immanence, the indwelling spirit within all living beings and the earth herself. I want to celebrate womanhood and nature. In brief, I have chosen this theme because I believe that the concept of transcendence that is the prevailing viewpoint of religion in our society contributes to many of the problems in our world, particularly the problem of violence. I hope to invoke in the viewer an experience of soul in matter. I want to honor and celebrate the sacredness of the earth, and of life in a body – specifically the female body. Clay is a very appropriate medium for this.
I am working with several basic elements in almost all my pieces: the female figure, the tree, leaves and flowers, snakes and birds.
We have a symbiotic relationship with trees, we breathe in what they breathe out and vice versa. Women specifically have an intimate relationship with trees going back, before Eve, to much older mythological roots.
The following paragraph from the Myth of the Goddess, by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford, speaks to the theme of immanence quite beautifully, I think:
The Tree of Life was one of the primary images of the goddess herself, in whose immanent presence all pairs of opposites are reconciled. Growing on the surface of the earth, with roots below and branches above, the tree was the great pillar that united earth with heaven and the underworld, through which the energies of the cosmos poured continuously into earthly creation. The animating spirit that moved within it was the serpent, guardian also of the fruit or treasure of the tree, which was the epiphany of the goddess, that is, the experience of unity. (p.496)
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