"What the audience saw when a dancer looked through the eyes of the mask was the Goddess Herself, ancient and yet contemporary, looking across time, across the miles." ...............Diane Darling
I, Lauren Raine, can take credit for making the masks in the Masks of the Goddess collection, but the Project belonged to many people who wrote the stories, performed, created rituals, danced, and prayed. Any work of art, especially a long collective work of art, is like a window into another universe.
And a great work of art breaks that window, to reveal something that goes beyond the picture plane. That's how I feel about this collective work - the Divine Feminine has come alive in the telling of so many women, and as they each brought Her many Faces and stories onto the stage She became both contemporary and personal. The work continues on beyond the picture plane.
Photos below are from an Archive of the masks, and of performances by Communities and Collaborators 1999 - 2019. Many are not included as I don't have photographs of their events unfortunately. To read about each Goddess follow the links from each Mask.
There is also a VIDEO ARCHIVE about the Project.
Photographs are by: Jerri Jo Idarius, Ileya Stewart,
Thomas Lux, Peter Hughes, Ann Beam and Lauren Raine
I, Lauren Raine, can take credit for making the masks in the Masks of the Goddess collection, but the Project belonged to many people who wrote the stories, performed, created rituals, danced, and prayed. Any work of art, especially a long collective work of art, is like a window into another universe.
And a great work of art breaks that window, to reveal something that goes beyond the picture plane. That's how I feel about this collective work - the Divine Feminine has come alive in the telling of so many women, and as they each brought Her many Faces and stories onto the stage She became both contemporary and personal. The work continues on beyond the picture plane.
Photos below are from an Archive of the masks, and of performances by Communities and Collaborators 1999 - 2019. Many are not included as I don't have photographs of their events unfortunately. To read about each Goddess follow the links from each Mask.
There is also a VIDEO ARCHIVE about the Project.
Photographs are by: Jerri Jo Idarius, Ileya Stewart,
Thomas Lux, Peter Hughes, Ann Beam and Lauren Raine
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