(48” x 48”) Oil on canvas 2017-2018

This painting honors the sacred feminine and serves as the feminine variant to its masculine counterpart. It offers an abstract view of femininity, using the human form as a symbol rather than a literal figure. Masculine and feminine energies exist within everyone, and this piece reflects that shared inner balance.

Blue is the dominant color in the painting to represent water with touches of red throughout it as well. This shows that balance comes from allowing opposing qualities to coexist, even when one energy leads.

The main deity is a water goddess of my own creation. She represents both life and death, beauty and the unknown. Her body is divided between a living form and a dead one, drawing inspiration from underworld goddesses such as the Norse deity Hel. This split reflects the feminine role as both creator and destroyer, linked to the earth and what lies beyond it.

There are lotus flowers floating on water with each one's center shaped with tiny yellow skulls. Below the waist, the goddess's body is a lotus as well, a sacred feminine symbol tied to fertility, inner growth, and beauty that survives in dark conditions. This is to show that she is not only spiritually minded to where she would be no earthly good, but is still grounded to earth and to reality, just like the roots of the lotus in the mud. This overall imagery presents a connection between the lively, creational representation of femininity vs. the decaying portrayal of the dark feminine, an indication of the dual nature of femininity itself. I intended to mainly represent the goddess as an embodiment of the water element, but there are still attributes of the feminine earth element included, such as the concepts of beauty, fertility, and the lotus flowers being rooted to earth.

A downward blue triangle on her forehead represents water and is the lower triangle of the Seal of Solomon. The rainbow fish that flow from her long hair move in a circular motion. Fish symbolize femininity, intuition, inner change, and spiritual awareness. They travel toward her left elbow, which melts into a pool of blood. This detail came from a personal experience with joint pain during that time and became a surreal image of physical breakdown.

The fish continue upward toward the moon, a symbol of intuition and the subconscious. The Eye of Horus appears on the moon beside its phases, pointing to healing, protection, and natural cycles.

Another feature is a red, three-eyed cat wrapped around her neck. Cats are linked to feminine mystery, and the third eye represents higher awareness. The cat’s tail curls around her body and transforms into red butterflies that move in a loose, rounded way toward the moon in order to complete the circle. These butterflies represent change, rebirth, freedom, and femininity.

The heart that she holds in her hand symbolizes compassion, love, and the life force that keeps the body running. Her fingers display tattoos of the yin symbol, the female symbol, and the crescent moon. The female symbol also hangs as a large earring in her ear.

The painting celebrates the divine feminine through intuition, softness, and transformation. It reflects the shifting nature of life and the deep bond between feminine energy and the elements of water and earth that exist within every human being.