Goddess of Abundance
Goddess of Abundancemixed media on board
11" x 7"
This is the first of my daily paintings. I used collage, acrylics, and oil pastel. It was fun to make and I'm delighted with it!
The central image of the mature woman in all her glory comes from an IKEA print ad. She looks so happy and comfortable with herself. There is something subversive about a naked older woman, and that appealed to me a great deal :)
I perched her on a throne of weathered stone to reflect her experience and "solidness".
The other main element is the gigantic corn stalk. I must admit that I wasn't thinking about the symbolic meaning of corn when I choose it. I just liked the masculine, shall we say..."upthrusting" of it.
Seriously now, the juxtaposition of the feminine and masculine in that weathered setting worked for me.
Later, it occured to me that corn is probably symbolic of something. I looked it up and found out that corn symbolizes plenty. According to PhoenixMasonry:
An ear of grain has been an emblem of plenty since the mists of antiquity which shroud the beginnings of mythology. Ceres, goddess of abundance, survives today in our cereals. The Greeks called her Demeter, a corruption of Gemeter, our mother earth. She wore a garland of grain and carried ears of grain in her hand...The Hebrew Shibboleth means both an ear of corn and a flood of water. Both are symbols of abundance, plenty, wealth.
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