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Author Archives: Art for Housewives
Prediction or Prevention
When the notorious Calabrian criminal Giuseppe Villella died, Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician, performed a post mortem on him. Lombroso discovered that Villella had an indentation at the back of his skull similar to those found in apes. Like … Continue reading
Centered
Many years ago I participated in a Parian exhibition based on mythology. Using recycled materials, I made the above painting about Omphale and Hercules. The text is rewritten below: Ομφαλός. Hercules’ first home was his mother’s body. But once the … Continue reading
Posted in Art Narratives, Books, People
Tagged Connie, Delphi, Hercules, Joan Didion, Omphale, Omphlos, Rhea, the Center, W. B. Yeats
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Sacred Threshold
Although it may appear just as a circle with a line cutting through it, the above is an abstract representation of the vulva. It’s made from the molar of a mammoth and found in a shaman’s tomb in Moravia The … Continue reading
Posted in art, Beauty, female consciousness, politics
Tagged archeology, Lepenski vir, Marija Gimbutas, Palaeolithic art, petroglyphs, vulva, Wade vs. Roe
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Ways of Knowing
Leonard Shlain’s The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict between Word and Image is a fascinating read about how writing reconfigured the human brain. Shlain says that preliterate agricultural cultures venerating female values used mainly the right half of the … Continue reading
The Narrative Within 