Inti-Ship-Partner-Mate, from the Metaphysical Maps series Print

Inti-Ship-Partner-Mate is a diptych painting on parchment, a 15-year collaborative project carried out with miniaturist Cathy Weber. One side depicts the female, the other one the male, brought together in the ever-shifting dance of intimacy.We see where the female hand approaches the prickly flower bud of the male heart and visa versa, a delicate maneuver in all cases. Is not love very much like this? We all seem to be exploring the same territory every other human before us has trod, but for the very first time! No one can tell us how to do it, only how they did it. And we certainly want to avoid their mistakes! The parchment diptych is mounted so that the pair can be hung with various alignments between the halves, emphasizing different elements of the exchange, as befits the viewer's inclinations. The whole Metaphysical Maps series is based on the idea that the early explorers were trying to make sense of a new world they could not understand, and only barely make out. Thus the wild speculations, misguided placements and bizarre spellings common to all early maps. They often serve as only rough indications of the realities they refer to. Of course I take certain liberties as a male speaking of the woman's experience, but this common to all the maps. We see a wind rose and scale on each side, as well as advice from the cartographer, or an illustration of the half-mirrored partner, or such textual indications as:    "One body alive in two places".  "The Pryce of Love is Greef. Love deep, Risk much, Greeve well" "Most entreat to goode humor."

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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