It’s Okay To Be A Wild Flower — New Era Series
All people who identify as women should be able to love and celebrate whomever brings out their joyous wild side.
This sculpture is also literally about our California wildflowers. In this case a native Wild Iris is in the womb, protected and embraced. Our wild plants, animals and we, are an interdependent web of wildlife.
I began this piece as an older woman’s wild celebration, of still loving life, sex, family and creating art. And, I saw it as a defiant gesture! While working on this piece Roe v. Wade was being challenged! And then, I was personally challenged by a potential uterine cancer scare. So, the piece became therapeutic. No, I don’t have uterine cancer. Again, it became a celebration, but sober, thinking of all the loved ones who haven’t been so lucky.
Her body’s vessel holds a wildly joyous bouquet made up of a lightning bolt of energy, the moon mirroring the womb, her eye “seeing” you the stars and everything in the universe as entwined. The Okay gesture (NOT a reference to white power) says it is Okay to be a “lowly wild flower” a “wild” woman, I’m going to be Okay, and the determination that all women will prevail in the control of their own bodies.
And it’s Okay to foment the wild notion of changing this system we are struggling to live under. A system that does harm to any life deemed in the way of profit. Evolution, is about adapting and changing. Let’s embrace the wild side and do that!
