About the artwork

Henrietta is an abstract sculpture that, at first glance, lauds the contemporary woman in all her female nude glory.  The diamonds and chevrons in its negative space recall Henry Moore's style, hence her name.  While the model's pose naturally created the gaps between the right arm and leg and bent legs and floor, the hollow chest was a choice forced by the limited time to sculpt.  As was the uneven molding.  However, that rough hewn molding also mimics the most primitive of fetish sculpting style, as do the diamond and chevron shapes that recall some of the ancient goddess symbols.   Thus, Henrietta also perfectly fits into my Eternal Goddess series of timeless icons expressed in enduring artistic symbols.  Prehistoric fetish figures.  Warriors.  Queens. Mothers.  Modern feminists. They celebrate feminine power: fertility, nourishment, love, renewal, vulnerability, strength, beauty, sensuality, regality, dignity, intelligence, wisdom, and communion with nature and each other.  Through a host of media and in styles ranging from representational to abstract to Pop Art, the works come alive via designs born in primeval times but embraced today: chevrons, swirls, zig zags, breast, nets, snakes, eggs, moons, arrowheads, vulvas, spirals, etc.  The "goddess hieroglyphics," if you will, as coined by archeologist and prehistorian Marija Gimbutas. Simple.  Classic.  Ancient. But also Modern.  As such, Henrietta and the Goddess Eternal series are part of umbrella motif of my works featured here, Ancient is Modern, Modern is Ancient, which translates abstract art techniques of color, geometry, texture, shape, line, form, and pattern of bygone eras into contemporary aesthetic and sensibility. (My Cave Art and Southwestern Landscape series fall under this umbrella theme as well.)