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this image is from pueblo indian pottery. i'm fuzzy on pueblo mythology, but i think the two women are goddesses having to do with planting and harvest. i'm going to try to fucus my theme on gods, myth, death, life, and maybe even gansters. i guess it'll fall under the unseen, transformations, eternity, and the short pier and the long walk. tell me what you think?
Posted by etching at September 23, 2004 09:56 PM
Who posted this image? Please rmember to identify yourself and select a category (etching) which you did... One important step overlooked was to change the status of this image to POST from "draft". I took care of it.
Whoa. Some light topics you're addressing with a single piece of pottery-life,death,gods,myth...gangsters? What? Are you thinking of "character types"..iconic figures?
How might an image like this relate to your work and find its way into the reallm of the unseen, transformations, etc.?
Related to etching, I see potential in the physicality of this image... the cracking, the symbology which as part of a matrix could be used at will in varying combinations. I'm interested in hearing more.
CT
as i mentioned in class to chris, i was attracted to this image because it had an ancient feel to it like cave paintings. images as religious or spirtitual symbols that tell a story of the people really fascinate me. in a lot of pueblo mythology, animals and humans are sometimes interchangeable. for example, there are stories where in the on coming of the great flood, the tribe were turned into these fish but images representing that show half fish and half man figures. also the goddesses that thought the universe into existence is called spider woman, but portrayed as a grandmotherly figure. i still have some thinking to do, but this is the sort of direction i want to take with my etchings in class. cheers. --paul
Posted by: paul at September 27, 2004 09:17 AM