Gift Guide: For Your Inner Mother Goddess

Gift Guide: For Your Inner Mother Goddess

For that all powerful archetype within you, honor the creative and destructive personification of earth, fertility, and all that jazz. This universal figure has many names. Powerful imagery, rich colors, themes of nature and balance between light and dark.

Vanitas - curina

Vanitas - curina

Amanda Ba

Vanitas

To You From Me - curina

To You From Me - curina

Elody Gyekis

To You From Me

Girl at the Party - curina

Girl at the Party - curina

Amanda Ba

Girl at the Party

My Sullen Childhood - curina

My Sullen Childhood - curina

Joe Piscopia

My Sullen Childhood

Fatalism dances with hope - curina

Fatalism dances with hope - curina

Sasha Hallock

Fatalism dances with hope

Amanda Ba

Amanda Ba

She is aware of the precariousness of her own identity. This gives her permission to occupy, more comfortably and more productively, the liminal space that is what Ien Ang would call in-between-ness—for Ang, hybridity is a welcome respite from the boundaries that children of the diaspora are often confined within. The self-generated idealization of her far-away “foreign” childhood hometown is often glaring, and the hybrid woman finds herself at once escaping to and challenging her possibly-confabulated halcyon memories, the psychic remembrances of an apparent “motherland”. (One gazes at her homelands with weary lucidity and any illusory pane shatters.)
Elody Gyekis

Elody Gyekis

Fairytales exist everywhere people have desires and dreams - and Elody is ready to listen to it. They may take the form of more traditional iconography like dragons and damsels, or something specific to the modern city like ghostly, faceless figures in the crowd. Both ways yield the view of human bodies as they are molded by images projected onto them by ourselves and by others.
Joe Piscopia

Joe Piscopia

Joe Piscopia builds 3D shapes with 2D mediums. Informed by strongly contrasted lighting, Joe’s gradations bring every object, concept, or pattern to life in abstract forms. Shapes and colors document moments of thought and emotion in Joe’s life. Starting with a thought, a bird, or a single word, he intuitively explores from there into a realm of soft geometry.
Sasha Hallock

Sasha Hallock

Sasha’s paintings are small but mighty. They sometimes look like fictional sculptures dropped onto the vacuum of vibrant color. Other times they’re like a clutter of found objects. In either case, disparate objects disappear in favor of a whole situation of motion and interaction, tinted with Sasha’s faith in the possibility of true harmony.