Our Super Hero
When we were thinking about heroes Stephanie and I both thought about gods or I guess goddesses. We have combined several holy ladies to get this super woman. We thought about Mary and her love and gentleness, but also incorporated the Hindu goddesses Kali, who is a little more ferocious. We also decided to use Venus the Goddess of Love, but a more earthly love. We thought that all of these deities together make a pretty amazing hero. Mary’s divine love balanced by Kali’s cleansing fires of destruction and rejuvenation, along with Venus who knows her own body so well all rolled into one for me personifies all the necessary characteristics of a mother. In her hands she holds four sacred symbols that I like to think of as her gifts to mankind. The ankh which represents life, both eternal and physical life, and the star of David which symbolizes the merging of the god consciousness with man’s consciousness, and the rose a symbol of silence and the nautilus shell which represents the divine proportion on which the universe is formed. Our hero stands in front of a mandala, which is a meditation tool that represents a map of the universe.
Stephanie did most of the photo shopping but I got down with the magnetic lasso tool to cut out some symbols and the paint bucket to fill in the mandala.