Wednesday, July 30, 2008

ID


It is really strange what has come up for me with artists, who are exploring their ID as a female, like Hazel Dooney and Heidi Forsell. Art is Moving, my amazing collaboration with Lauren just interviewed Heidi at her M.F.A. show and it was all about her personal female identity in art. It brings up a lot of questions for me.
I as an artist have investigated altered states, social phobia, the shadow, the transcendental, but never honed on the female Id in our society. Yes, I have evoked the Goddess and spit at the Patriarch, but on a personal level never thought about my female Id. Do I want to? Is it to personal....In my early twenties, it was so about the personal, Goth and more about me as archetypal tormented artist. If I were to focus on this single aspect of myself what would that look like??
I am not sure what this bringing up...But I have been having a lot of dreams about sewage and authority.
I have been reading off and on this amazing book that talks about the feminine ID within the context of history "Click Here" to check an interview with the author Riane Eisler of Sacred Pleasure.

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