MCPA presents a local emerging artist, Rev. Jack Green, who has long been nurturing his "Goddess Project" and has been in recent years manifesting this vision in photography.
"This Goddess Project is a specific aspect of what I call my 'Gaian' art, which began in the mid 90s for me. I had been actively Pagan for about 10 years and had noticed for some time that numerous Goddess postures were seen in a wide variety of cultures, as observed by many anthropologists. Feminist or Dianic Wicca, a.k.a. 'Wymin’s Religion' made a great deal of this as relevant to the ubiquity of the Goddess, which was seen as a universality in some groups.
There was also floating around, a notion absorbed from early 20th century occultist Dion Fortune-- that 'all Gods are One God and All Goddesses are One Goddess.' Many people expanded this idea into spiritually viewing all Men as 'the God' and, (especially among the feminists) all Women as 'the Goddess.'
My 'Gaian' art project has two directions: one, an attempt to interpret individual Goddesses in particular women, using ancient statuary and images as inspiration, and (in the future) a composite Goddess, a fusion of images of various women into a traditional posture (to be determined).
The individual portraits are easier to do; plus I like doing witchy or Priestess portraits and pregnancy celebrations. Each woman I work with brings her own unique quality to our collaboration to embody the sacred feminine."
