{"id":153,"date":"2007-01-14T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/?p=153"},"modified":"2007-01-15T09:18:23","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T17:18:23","slug":"liz-seaton-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Liz Seaton Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recently, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve finished 2 (maybe 3?) sculptures for Gaia exhibitions which were part of the past two Jersey City Studio Tours, that loosely referred to the ancient Greek mythic figures: the Three Fates. Last year for instance, I made a sculpture in-the-round called \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcKnitting Nancy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, which is a mixed media woman-figure built around a tube, with red knitting passing through her body. There was also a relief sculpture of a female half-figure, knitting on actual wooden needles. The knitting was dipped in wax. Since that show, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made some revisions, and to me, the pieces are stronger.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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These were the first works I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever made that make reference to my own, rather intense involvement with needlecraft. And this year, I made a largish relief of a woman drastically shortening her dress with a pair of scissors, which was directly intended to be about \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsolicitation of the gaze\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. However, I got the idea from another idea which has been incubating, about a piece that would complete a suite of sculptures that could be a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThree Fates\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 series \u00e2\u20ac\u201c maybe even a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFates and Norns\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 series.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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For the residency, I would like to create a corner-installed relief in epoxy over wood, of a woman with fibers growing out of her head and body. She is cutting a handful of these fibers with an actual pair of taxidermy shears. Her skin will be painted roughly in oils. The fibers should probably be waxed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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My work has always been influenced by goddess figures of the Neolithic period: Cycladic figures, Ain Ghazal artifacts. However, when I was in grad school, I got a taste of the hostility that has developed in the art world toward feminist art that references \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe goddess\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. This has pushed me to research questions around the mind\/body and the nature\/culture split in Western philosophy — particularly how this all relates to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcembodiment\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfemale identities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m digging deeper, to find more concerning both the sources and justifications for my work.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Furthermore, in the midst of all this, I was invited to join a woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spirituality group, which now numbers 38. We gather eight times a year to celebrate solstices, equinoxes, and cross-quarter holidays. We sign up yearly for the responsibility to create a ritual that celebrates the divine feminine \u00e2\u20ac\u201c whatever that means! \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and our connection to the Earth and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cycles. This has been deeply satisfying work. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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At present, my religious ideas remain unclear and radically uncertain, but I do prefer them to be this way. I thoroughly believe in doubt. Recently, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been alternating drastically between literature celebrating the divine feminine and a thorough-going evolutionary, atheistic approach. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Cyborg Manifesto\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: if God is dead, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the Goddess dead, as well? I doubt I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in a position to judge, but perhaps, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll continue to guess.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I still cherish the idea of the sacred, the idea of the Divine. I believe the freedom to ask questions about the nature of the feminine divine may turn out to be what is challenging, particularly in the face of resurgent patriarchal monotheisms.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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