Etchings: The Ancient Goddess

Etchings
The Ancient Goddess

The etchings here trace my relationship with the feminine principle that manifests in the images that come down to us from the pre-metal ages, principally the Neolithic and Bronze Ages of the 10th to the 2nd millennium BCE. Mostly these are efforts to demonstrate the iconographic quality of these sacred images. In the prints the image is centrally placed and surrounded by a field of pattern derived from elements of the specific culture. Application of various etching techniques - line, aquatint, softground,

Unknown Polish Goddess
aquatint and deep bite etching

Cucuteni Fields
line, softground and aquatint etching

Cucuteni Threshold
line, aquatint and deep bite etching
three etchings demonstrating the relationship of the ceramic wares' outer form with the figurines' silhouette. When two vessels are placed side-by-side a negative space is set up that closely resembles the lines of the figurines' form.