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Vulva Series

Vulva Series, 2D Fine Art
Vulva Series
The first time I saw another woman’s vulva I was 5 years old… It was a photograph of the Venus of Willendorf (The 5” stone carving from 30,000 BCE.), looking at an art history book with my dad. She didn’t look like me, huge breasts and round, faceless head, but we shared a hairless little crotch with a centered fold, a line. “Vulva Series” takes my early, little girl’s imprint of my own and all women’s anatomy and boils it down to that single, vertical “line” then pairs it with gilded shapes that indirectly, almost secretly express the pleasures and pressures… the depth and complexities... of living a female body…

Vulva Series relates to your theme "Venus Rising" beautifully. I have previously done work that delves into the difficulties and politics of living as a woman: saying things that "needed to be said." With this work I wanted to create a counter-balance: The title, materials and concept celebrate feminine embodiment and sexuality in a playful, abstracted, even indirect manner... without imposing a specific narrative or history on that feeling/experience.

Series in progress. Ink and Palladium gilding on Bicchu Torinoko Gampi paper. 16 x 22? (Price below is for an individual drawing, not the series)
  Miranda Maher
2D Fine Art (Drawing)    22 x 16    $950.00   
A short statement of the proposed artwork's relationship to the theme of "Venus Rising, A Celebration of Women (150-500 words).
The first time I saw another woman’s vulva I was 5 years old… It was a photograph of the Venus of Willendorf (The 5” stone carving from 30,000 BCE.), looking at an art history book with my dad. She didn’t look like me, huge breasts and round, faceless head, but we shared a hairless little crotch with a centered fold, a line. “Vulva Series” takes my early, little girl’s imprint of my own and all women’s anatomy and boils it down to that single, vertical “line” then pairs it with gilded shapes that indirectly, almost secretly express the pleasures and pressures…the depth and complexities... of living a female body… I have previously done work that delves into the difficulties and politics of living as a woman: saying things that "needed to be said." With this work I wanted to create a counter-balance: The title, materials and concept celebrate feminine embodiment and sexuality in a playful, abstracted, even indirect manner...without imposing a specific narrative or history on that feeling/experience. Series in progress. Ink and Palladium gilding on Bicchu Torinoko Gampi paper.