Kali Maal in Pink Painting

Oil, Acrylic, wood burning 16 x 20 "

A Tantric expression of the Kali Maal. She is the liberator of souls from the material. Not only death of the ego and the body, but also the life bringer, the regenerative force.
With her right hand she beckons us to have our minds cut from us, and the blood of life collected in a golden cup. The cup is the primordial womb. There are strands of gold feeding into her like the web of energy that is woven by the fates. Tantra means to weave. She is the doorway and the weaver of fate.

She supports and creates the material from which your soul is liberated from. All is divine.

I meet people that believe there is evil in creation when what is evil is often just being stuck in illusion. This fearsome Goddess wears the skulls as trophies for all the souls she has liberated. Death is not to be feared. What you think is your dome is often only a doorway to greater understanding.
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The Icon of Mother and Child Reimagined

This, to me, is the ultimate depiction of the Madonna. Her yoni is showing to indicate that she is not a virgin. Virginity, historically speaking, wasn't venerated by matriarchal cultures. Before the spread of patriarchal religion beginning around 3,500 B.C.E. virginity was no big deal because the head of the house was a woman, and therefor all her children were known. When the power shifted to the male, he found that his wife's fidelity was important because he wanted to be supporting his seed.

Religion fallows the needs of culture. Now that the sexes are coming nearer to equality, a state I hope for, control of female sexuality will be less important.

The Virgin Mary, who was modeled after a very sexual Goddess, will regain her private parts and the power contained by them.

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Daphne's Awakening

Is the other half of the story yet untold by legend. As it was, a long, long time ago, Daphne was a headstrong huntress of deer primarily. 
She was spotted by Apollo, the rake of the ancient world. He was used to getting his way with the ladies. However, as he approached, sweetly calling her she slipped away. Se he gave chase, and she was hard pressed to outrun him.
She called for help form her father the River, and he in his infinite wisdom, turned her into a laurel tree. Which Apollo worshiped to the end of his days.
Yet she remained forever imprisoned for a crime she did not commit.
In this painting I free her to walk among us once again. This is Daphne returning to herself as maiden once more. May these times see her as a woman in her own right.

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