1.22.2006

Laurie Young

"Medusa"


50 x 60 cm
22" x 23"
The Medusa was out of a series I did for my Honours degree exploring mythology and women, I also had a Lilith and Stheno and Euryale, using my own and good friends faces for models.
I made three Medusas, two in Pate de Verre, using Bullseye glass, and one in Blackwood crystal. They are quite massive, the pate de verre ones being around 50X60 cm, and the crystal one weighing over 50 kilos.


Medusa Represents: "Sovereign female wisdom. The female mysteries. All the forces of the primordial Great Goddess: The Cycles of Time as past, present and future. The Cycles of Nature as life, death and rebirth. She is universal Creativity and Destruction in eternal Transformation. She is the Guardian of the Thresholds and the Mediatrix between the Realms of heaven, earth and the underworld. She is Mistress of the Beasts. Latent and Active energy.
Connection to the earth. The union of heaven and earth. She destroys in order to recreate balance. She purifies.
She is the ultimate truth of reality, the wholeness beyond duality. She rips away our mortal illusions. Forbidden yet liberating wisdom. The untamable forces of nature. As a young and beautiful woman she is fertility and life. As crone she consumes by devouring all on the earth plane. Through death we must return to the source, the abyss of transformation, the timeless realm. We must yield to her and her terms of mortality. She reflects a culture in harmony with nature. " from Tufts University



Detail

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6 comments:

Cynthia Oliver said...

Fabulous. I love the color and the composition. Very accomplished.

Anonymous said...

LOVE IT! Great detail and interesting subject.

DOLORES

Anonymous said...

Absolutely amazing work for sure. I keep coming back to your piece over and over again as I find different things in it each time. Congrats
Leslie Rowe-Israelson

Anonymous said...

WOW! The work you put into this must have been incredible! It's a fascinating piece!

JoAnn

Skin Mechanic said...

Most excellent, Laurie. Ancient, monolythic, existing outside of time. I love the greens. The mottling on Medusa's face looks like an artifact excavated from a temple in some dark, steamy jungle. Earthy, primal, and very powerful.

Anonymous said...

Absolutely gorgious, ...and powerful.