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1. Mary
Gravelle with Queen Goddess, July 2000
2. Queen
Goddess: Stage 1, July 2000
3. Queen
Goddess: Stage 2a & 2b, July 2000
4. Queen
Goddess: Final Stage, July 2000
5. Queen
Goddess: Final Stage Detail of Crown
July 2000
6. Queen
Goddess, Final Touches to her Crown
December 2003
Queen
Goddess
Mary
Gravelle
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Title: Queen
Goddess
Artist: Mary
Gravelle
Media: Tempera on paper, 8' X 5'
Created in July, 2000
with finishing detail in December, 2003
Created during a 10-day training meeting of Painting From the Source with Aviva Gold
Painting
I wrote nothing about this piece at the time. What I can tell you is that the timing was six weeks after my brother died suddenly in a freak boating accident.
Mixed messages appear to me now as I look at it. "Lying on the riverbank and crying a river of blood," sounds appropriate for the time. The death of a loved one is so devastating, one is at a loss for words, much less equilibrium. Tears flow easily and unexpectedly. Sleep is the only escape from emotion that is at the forefront of every life encounter.
This past December (2003), I painted the finishing detail on her crown of "tuning radar globes" around the feather antennae. See fig. 6 at left. I named the piece "Queen Goddess, Grief Put to Rest" as I was finally feeling like the grief had run its cycle.
Then my favorite pet cat (don't tell the rest of my cat gang!) and buddy, Dexter Beasley, died quickly from a heart attack on Dec. 31. So much for putting grief to rest. I wonder if we can ever put it to rest anyway. Once you lose a loved one, every loss spirals you back through all the other losses.
On the positive side, looking at the river of blood tears, Mother Earth Goddess, is more than willing and able to recycle it all. She can handle whatever we give to her. My "tuning forks" reach toward the divine and receive inspiration to continue.
For now, Queen Goddess is hanging at our Hartford studio if anyone wants to see her in person.
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Posted: 12/23/2007
© 2004 Mary Gravelle
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