Nut & Geb Painting

This acrylic and mixed media piece plays on texture. Nut and Geb, the Egyptian Goddess of the sky and her Earthly counterpart, are depicted as two reflections of the same woman; sometime-distinct, but always in a tumbrel. This collection was all executed during the same period; of grappling with feelings that feel as personal and acute as they are inherited. My mother, my grandmother, her grandmother have all been with me as I paint, in fear or in celebration or in defeat. There is a kinship between the forms that does not feel accidental. They are all women I feel I have been or know.