Transformation Series

Over a period of a couple years I made these three sculptures to depict a difficult transition I was going through.  Several traumatic events happened close together in my life and I was new in sobriety.  I felt overly emotional and at times overwhelmed with what life was throwing at me and my family.  That is represented by the women being made of pieces, stuck together and giving me shape as the events were all consuming. 

I totally connected to the book, “Dark Nights of the Soul” by Thomas Moore.  It allowed me to feel my despair, learn and grow in it, and have hope that light would return.  That is represented by her looking upward.

At the same time, I started on a spiritual path which supported and guided me in this transition.  I learned that I was not alone on a soul level.  That I could turn over people, places, and things that were outside of my control.  That faith was accepting the dark and the light.  That I could flow through life instead of fighting and resisting.  That is represented by the copper spiral that she pulls from within herself and then gazes at directly.

At the end of this transition, she is sitting upright, fully gazing at her new spiritually strong self, a survivor, ready to become a thriver.