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This painting is of my daughter. The theme is basically reflection of the feminie divine but here making it more personal. I wanted to depict the struggles of my daugther with perhaps the common struggles of all young women as we head in to the 21st century as their roles as evolving and changing with each passing year.
She displays here her inner confidence, a oneness with the feminine and inner masculine, animus and anima, a new garnered strength this generation of young women are growing in to, standing up for their rights and embracing their feminine strength.
She represents the mother, the divine feminine. She’s clothed in yellow, the masculine color of the sun, unified, yet divided against the violence of the past and male dominance. No longer submissive or subjugated as the cloak of the sun slips from her shoulder reveleaing her nakedness. No longer afraid in her vulneraility as she stands alone.
She symbolizes the metamorphosis, emergence from the passive, submissive woman as she stares from the scene. no bowing or tilt of the head. The book of Revelation 12 described perhaps Mary, Jesus’ mother, (also representing the divine feminine, mother of all faiths, Mother Earth ) as clothed in the sun and standing on the moon, the feminine symbol, ’mysterium lunae,’ but here the woman of the apocalypse may indicate victory over something other than a serpent, perhaps herself.
