These small beaded tapestries represent the first half of 2016. Creating one piece each month, I am working through the year. The goddesses are sculpted polymer.

February 2015 I participated in the Delaware Fun-a-day project; creating a piece of art each day of the month. The goddesses are small votive figures, hand held.

February 2015 I participated in the Delaware Fun-a-day project; creating a piece of art each day of the month. The goddesses are small votive figures, hand held.

Collaged on canvas, this piece includes vintage encyclopedia text, stenciling and images transferred to canvas.

Collaged on canvas, this piece includes vintage silk cord, stenciling and images transferred to canvas.

Collaged on canvas, this piece includes vintage silk cord and encyclopedia text, antique sheet music and an inset niche containing an hourglass.

Collaged on canvas, this piece includes an inset niche containing a vial of snakeskin.

This Norse triad – Urd (Fate) Verthandi (Being) and Skuld (Necessity) are the goddesses of fate. The sit at the base of Ygdrassil, the world tree, and tend it with waters from Urd’s Well. Similar to the Greek Moirae, they spin the thread of life, take a person’s measure, and cut the thread when life is done. They are said to “score the wood” or carve the runes of destiny. What is yet to be written in the book of your destiny?

Demeter is the Greek goddess of the earth, of grain and fertility. Her daughter, Persephone is the Maiden of spring, yet also the Queen of the Underworld. Persephone spends half the year in the Underworld, as Demeter’s grief for her absent daughter plunges the Earth into barrenness – thus creating the cycle of the seasons. Growth returns when the Spring Maiden emerges from below.