2011 - Talk Birth

Adventures in Birth Art... (2011-01-12 21:25)
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Celebrating pregnancy mandala
This has been my most art-full pregnancy and that has been so much fun! I’ve made [2]polymer
clay birth goddess sculptures galore, some [3]womby finger labyrinths, drawn a number of black and white
mandalas (see example to right!), made a specially decorated [4]birth altar, and also made a [5]belly cast.
Each one of these projects has been meaningful to me in a special way. At my blessingway/mother blessing
ceremony this past weekend, I was touched to be gifted with many birth art projects made for me by my
friends. Really wonderful (more on this later, I promise!).
A little while ago, I wanted to incorporate the labyrinth metaphor into one of my sculptures, but
was unable to make a tiny enough labyrinth to stick on her belly the way I envisioned, so she ended up with
a double-spiral instead:
[6]
Spiral belly figure sitting on spiral birth symbol aromatherapy pillow gifted to me by my friend at my
blessingway ceremony.
My current ”issue” that I decided to work on through art is with pushing the baby out. I have
never found pushing an enjoyable part of labor and the feeling of the baby’s head crowning to me is intense
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