Saturday, May 31, 2014

I love Marlene Dumas' Mind

An excerpt from her writing on kitsch art and god!
"And there for us (the children of Abraham, the
Father of the christians, muslims and the jews)
the image – problem started. Don’t blame the
modernists. They just re-discovered our old
mystic, abstract roots. They didn’t mean to make
it difficult, they just wanted to make it simple.
The catholic Jesus, tried to appease God by saying,
“Father forgive them for they know not what they’re doing,”
but then Jesus never painted a picture or wrote a book.
His fans did.
I was always concerned about what God would want me to do.
I always wondered if art was good enough for God. And if so,
What subject matter would be worth pursuing. I knew sexy was low,
erotic a bit higher and sorrow the noblest."

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Monday, May 26, 2014

I went in search of ideas of the female face of God...

Coatlicue, also known as Teteoinan (also transcribed Teteo Inan), "The Mother of Gods", is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huitzilochtli, the god of the sun and war. She is also known as Toci (Tocî, "our grandmother") and Cihuacoati (Cihuācōhuātl, "the lady of the serpent"), the patron of women who die in childbirth.



Wednesday, May 14, 2014

And more Sneak Peeks..

One more 4" x 4" to go and then the two 10" x 10".