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Wheel of Life Goddess Birthing Wisdom

Terra Cotta
23” H x 15” W x 5” D
2001

About the Piece

This piece was inspired, in part, by an Indian sculpture of a woman giving birth to a serpent. For me, this symbolizes woman giving birth to wisdom.

The piece is a stylized yoni/vulva giving birth to a woman who is in turn giving birth to a serpent. The outer frame is in the shape of a mandorla/yoni. The outer lips of the vulva are shown as the wheel of life, or key pattern, and the inner folds of the vulva are a swirling area that is convulsing with birth.