Goddess Eternal  

My contemporary series of timeless icons expressed in enduring artistic symbols.  Prehistoric fetish figures.  Animals.  Warriors. Queens.  Mothers.  Modern feminists.  They celebrate feminine power: fertility, nourishment, love, renewal, vulnerability, beauty, strength, sensuality, regality, dignity, intelligence, wisdom, and communion with nature and each other.  Through a host of media and in styles ranging from representational to abstract to Pop Art, the works come alive via designs born in primeval times but embraced today as well: chevrons, swirls, zig zags, breasts, nets, snakes, eggs, moons, arrowheads, vulvas, spirals, etc.  Goddess hieroglyphics, if you will.  Simple.  Classic.  Ancient.  But also Modern.  

White Lady

Media: Clay & Acrylic Patina Paint 

Size: 6"  X  16.5"   X  6.75"

Curvaceously chic.  This modern minimalist bone-colored sculpture pays homage to prehistoric fertility fetish figures.  My sculpture is inspired from an 8.4-inch-high stone-carved Neolithic figurine circa 5,000 B.C. called Lady of Se, so named for the Hungarian village where it was unearthed.  Contemporary figurine hallmarks include elegant elongated torso lines, sharp angles cutting prominent hips to tiny legs, and exaggerated derriere curves, sculpted with stylized shapes for side views but for humorous effect from back views on the support structure.  My tribute to contemporary voluptuous icons a la Jennifer Lopez and Sophia Loren -- and every gloriously full-figured woman.

Side View -- White Lady

A prominent fanny showcases the dramatic lines leading to the legs and extends into the support for humorous effect.  

Back View -- White Lady

Elegant back lines and strong rotund bum incorporate the support into the sculptural figure.   

Prehistoric California Goddess

A Pop Art salute to a circa 4,200 B.C. figurine from Romania's brilliant Cucuteni-Trypillia civilization.  Two panels offer front and back views of an ancient female fetish form detailed with repeated use of revived prehistoric art patterns: whirls, M designs, lines, chevrons, hooks, horns, eggs, circles, etc.  Although the black, white, and terra cotta palette recalls early Grecian pottery, this effigy specifically honors the primeval Goddess of Southern California -- as it sports the trademark bikini of a shapely, healthy beach girl.  Splashes of yellow and turquoise are my winks to fellow living modern Goddesses, as we howl together at this celebration of the eternal beauty of real women -- cellulite and all!

Bird Goddess of Her Own Feather 

Media: Clay & Acrylic Patina Paint 

Size: 7"  X  13.25"   X 4.5"

Perpetual renewal.  Such is the symbolism of the bird goddesses of ancient eras, represented here by prominent breasts with peaks of incised triple chevrons, as inspired by a 3,000 B.C. standing stone megalith grave marker some 5 feet tall in southeastern Italy.  My smaller megalith-shaped bird goddess is reborn as an abstracted contemporary female figure via a hint of tummy and waistline, pelvic jewelry belt, and curved backside with shoulders, spine, and buttocks.  Stone effects include blue-grey patina, gashes, irregular formations, and traces of yellow ochre and salmon colors to suggest other minerals in stone -- which itself regenerates ceaselessly in nature. 

Back View -- Bird Goddess of Her Own Feather 

Sculpting on the back side showcases the rough hewn shapes of a female nude's back with shoulders, shoulder blades, spine, and buttocks.  

Swan

Media: Ceramic: Clay, Slip, Underglaze, Wash, & Glaze 

Size: 8"  X  17"   X  9"

A contemporary re-interpretation of the bird goddess as nourishing vessel from the Aegean Sea region during the Bronze Age (3,300 B.C. - 1,200 B.C.).  On the Cycladic island of Thera (modern day Santorini), nippled ewers with spouts as heads and beaks were common in the matriarchal Minoan culture.  Though the ancient black-and-white functional pitchers were often slender or stout and roughly hewn, my sleek glazed sculpture enacts the elegant lines of a swan: graceful, elongated neck, head, and beak atop a diamond-shaped body with etchings of feathers.  The mesmerizing enlarged stylized eyes evoke the mysterious all-knowing sensibility of feminine intuition.   

Back View - Swan

While the side etchings capture the essence of the swan's folded wings, the back side affects a tail with handle and etchings.

Side View - Swan

The full power of the "intuitive eye" -- created with a separate pasted-on mold -- can be felt when viewed straight on from the side.  

Lilies of the Ladies

Media: Ceramic: Clay, Slip, Underglaze, & Glaze 

Size: 14"  X  14"   X  1.25"

A "rite of spring" scene inspired by partially preserved fresco imagery of circa 1,600 B.C. Minoan Crete and Thera (modern day Santorini) and then embellished into a complete original composition on a ceramic wall platter.  Two aristocratic ladies in high-status robes, possibly priestesses, join hands to bless a garden of lilies sprouting from volcanic red rock in a hopeful ritual that celebrates fertility and regeneration.  The circular plate with starry sky in crescent moon shape completes the "cycle of life" symbolism that the ancient Greeks often bestowed on their native lily.  A white clay slip layered over parts of the glazed dish and then refired creates a peeled effect characteristic of the excavated frescoes.  Can be hung on a wall or perched on stand for table or shelf display.    

Henrietta

Medium: Acrylic Paint over Clay

Size: 16.5" X 7" X 10.5"

This abstraction lauds the contemporary goddess in all her female nude glory.  Interestingly, the shapes of the negative space recall some of the ancient goddess symbolic hieroglyphics of diamonds and chevrons -- while also drawing on the Henry Moore tradition.  Hence, her name.  While the model's pose naturally created the gaps between the right arm and leg and bent legs and floor, the hollow chest was a choice forced by the limited time to sculpt.  As was the uneven molding, also echoing the most primitive of fetish sculpting styles.  

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Barbie Kicks Male Hollywood Asses

Media: Ceramic: Clay, Slip, Underglaze, & Glaze 

Box: 9.5"   X  11.5"    X  3"    High Heel:  3"  X 3.25"  X 7" 

Pig Executive:  4.5"  X. 4.75"  X 4" 

With pointed humor against Hollywood's misogynistic big studio system, this ceramic Pop Art still life revels over the record-breaking success of "Barbie: The Movie," the 2023 feminist feature film based on the Barbie doll, a modern goddess and icon since her 1959 debut.  To represent the system's dismissive attitude of real women, a male chauvinist pig Hollywood executive holds a slate, saying: "Chick Flicks Don't Make $."  But "Barbie" literally shattered that prejudice in Bad Ass stiletto style as it detonated a hot-pink atomic bomb at the box office to become the year's highest grossing film globally ($1.44 billion).  The movie proved high heels down: truly understand women's life experiences and they will come, from all ages and countries, and in every possible hair-do. (Copyright: Jacqueline Savaiano)

Other Side of Box --

Barbie Kicks Male Hollywood Asses

This side lists just a few of the movie's box office records.  The box can be displayed on a Lazy Susan turntable that can be rotated for easy viewing of both sides of the box -- the big-screen viewing scene and box office records.