Primeval Forest Mother is a painting by Shahna Lax which was uploaded on February 14th, 2014.
Primeval Forest Mother
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by Shahna Lax
Original - Sold
Price
$3,000
Dimensions
16.000 x 19.000 x 1.500 inches
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Title
Primeval Forest Mother
Artist
Shahna Lax
Medium
Painting - Etched Copper With Oxides
Description
Original copper available for purchase on saatchiart.,com
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My work emerges from what I experience as an internal imperative rather than an idea. In the case of Primeval Forest Mother I saw an ancient, wizened, animal-like woman in the center of a circle of some sort - the navel of a tree or within a group of trees. She was both joyful and all-knowing. When She finished with me I truly wondered who She was, why I had never heard of Her before and why She was showing up now. Here are the words I heard in response:
"She who has always been.
Born of the stars (weren't we all?)
But she was first.
A wild thing, part animal, part green,
she beems in merriment, Bombadil-like.
Who is this ancient one that stalks our memories,
encircled by the navel of a tree or within a circle of withes: root, branch, leaf and swelling fruit?
Why does she now re-emerge,
the wise one who knows our deep anxieties to be transient as a stubbed toe or broken toy-
soon to heal or be forgotten?
An old comfort in a time of fading boundaries."
I don't know exactly what that might mean, but there you have it.
Uploaded
February 14th, 2014
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