THE SORCERESS

Here the Sorceress. She is a Chimera, built up from plenty of different elements. She is scary, because she is almighty. So how her body parts came together?

One of the first depiction of a human appeared in our history of art at he cave of Trois-Frères in France. This painted man was hiding in the skin of a deer, with its antlers. He was a shaman of some sort, he had been named as The Sorcerer.

Then leaping forward in time, I was a feltmaker, and I wanted to make something from felt. I was thinking of what to make.. what to make… what to make.. when my child got home and she said an eagle flew through the window, into her dad’s house, and dropped dead on the floor. Well, you might know that moment. I instantly felt like that “eagle” (that was a sparrow-hawk btw). I, if I don’t escape from that house, would have dropped dead.. search search.. eagle.. and Scythians.. I knew I want something to do with the Scythians, because I was trying to be a feltmaker and there are no better feltmakers than the Scythians, and as well we call them our ancestors. I wanted to make a tribute to my ancestors. So there it was, the Scythian Magical Stag, and through my newly spirited researches I now realised, that those tattoos and golden statues of deers and those pretty twining patterns on their antlers.. so those patterns are actually eagle-heads. Eagles, whom are waiting out at the branches of the Tree of Life to bring the souls back to Earth to reborn.. And the Tree of Life is itself the Antler of the Magical Stag.

So there was this two masculine thing, the Sorcerer and The Stag.. but I am a woman, and stories are told by women about the wonderous stag from Hungary to Japan since thousands of years.. so I made a cave-woman, gave her leather clothes (I learnt how to make a bra) and I transformed that Stag into a mask as it was on the cave walls of Trois-Frères, to create the symbol of the first, hiding but almighty woman, and submitted to Mandurah Wearable Art show in 2018.