“These are burning times. And they call for Burning Women. Women embodied in their passion. Woman feeling in their bodies. Creative women..”
Burning Women arise.
Our time is now.
Our time has come.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman
I know that I know that I know that the times we are in are the fires, and that yes – we are rising. I know it subjectively – the last three years have been me sorting through the ashes, and for the first time in awhile, things have begun to clear. And I know it collectively – there is more purpose, less uncertainty.
More energy. More clarity.
And while our purpose and path are something inherent to each of us individually, there is also the collective nature of the purpose and path of all women: To rise.
I created this in part inspired by Lucy A. Pearce’s seminal work, “Burning Woman” because it gives me much strength when times are especially hard to discern. I have always wanted to create a feminine Phoenix because it perfectly embodies us as women at so many stages of life. Life transformations of deaths and births, of loss and discovery. The transition from girl to Maiden. From Maiden to Mother, from Mother to crone. Where the old is literally done away with, and a new and different thing comes into place. Where we are reduced to ash in those liminal times wondering what the hell is happening, and feeling absolutely bereft – but then the discovering. This is especially daunting at the last stage, and what nobody tells you is how the veils lift – but that is for another work.
This work is to serve as a tangible reminder of the magic within you – wherever you are in your own life. It is a placeholder of hope in the symbology of what it is to not just survive, but to be rebirthed anew.
To fully own and acknowledge the fire within you.
To remind you to embrace your own burning time.
To see with eyes beyond your human eyes
And to remember that yes, again, you will rise
.“Burning Woman (Phoenix Rising)
Mixed Media
2022
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