Visual Arts

Why I want to be Autumn De Wilde when I grow up

Thumbnail image for Why I want to be Autumn De Wilde when I grow up by Alexandra Wallace January 14, 2012

For the majority of early childhood, I knew who I wanted to be when I grew up: Snow White, of course. I had planned my future of adulthood to take place in an idyllic cottage, spending my afternoons singing in the middle of a forest while little birds landed on my hand. Writing it out, [...]

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Ancestor Worship

Thumbnail image for Ancestor Worship by Gale Madyun May 11, 2011

“Waking Up,” giving many thanks to Alice Walker for the powerful voice she used to coax the early-before-day-morning radio audience to learn the names of our ancestors. Many decades ago, in continuous whispers, hushes and a rush she urged we learn the name Yemaya. Yemaya is the orisa who symbolizes all the oceans and the [...]

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Liberation Legs

Thumbnail image for Liberation Legs by Gale Madyun February 2, 2011

For me, problem solving for an important life lesson is often a Liberation Legs activity. These six whimsical ink and water color drawings celebrate the liberation of breath into action and truth into power and woman into warrior as a swing of the legs into windows of reflections. Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots are Made for [...]

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Beautiful Big Bottomed Women!

Thumbnail image for Beautiful Big Bottomed Women! by Gale Madyun December 1, 2010

The four Beautiful Big Bottomed Women in this series are a celebration of women birthed in sensual soul-earth memory. All four women, naked-to-the-wind in voluptuous curves, shapes, and colors are confident in sensual earth-flesh-spirit expansions. Briefly, they each give pause to wave out to the winds which beckon across the horizon. So primordial are the [...]

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Strolls Lake Merritt

Thumbnail image for Strolls Lake Merritt by Gale Madyun September 22, 2010

“Strolls Lake Merritt” is an 9×12 ink and water color print of a magical nanosecond encounter with an elderly Vietnamese woman. She seamlessly maneuvers between pedestrians and picture-perfect twisted tree limbs along the street and dirt paths of the lake, while pushing a rickety, rusty cart of neat piles of groceries and clothes. On top [...]

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