Beholder Series Sculpture

I am experimenting with the notion of the female gaze and it’s link to female monstrosity within a historical context. The gorgon assumes godlike attributes, to imply divine birth and protection, her piercing gaze has the power to turn those who gaze upon her to stone. For Freud the Medusa a was a “petrifying force,” reducing men to hysteria based of a sexual fear of the defiant female body. A fear of “enslavement, seduction and the loss of manhood; and Perseus removes the “monstrous” threat of the woman's direct stare. Then he is now free to look at her without her looking back at him. In this case, the Medusa’s uncanniness exposes the presumed familiarity of symbolic violence and its reaction to the female and its link to monstrosity. When women fail to obey they lose their head, this can only be avoided on condition of total submission. It suggests a fear of female power and the anti-female message in Greek myth and culture, that still persists to this day. I have created 10 shields in the Beholder edition, they are mounted on the wall with a French Cleat hanging system, which is included.

Sculpture:Clay on Ceramic

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:9 W x 15 H x 7 D in

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