Thera 1, 2003, Archival pigment print, 24" x 24"
Thera 2, 2003, Archival pigment print, 24" x 24"
Thera 3, 2003, Archival pigment print, 24" x 24"
Thera 4, 2003, Archival pigment print, 24" x 24"
Thera 5, 2003, Archival pigment print, 24" x 24"
Thera 6, 2003, Archival pigment print, 24" x 24"
The Thera Series, 2003, a suite of six archival digital prints, draws upon images from the Minoan period the earliest utopian society. From 3000 to 1500 BC this culture thrived. Artifacts show women debarking from ships, carrying trees, hunting with bows and arrows, driving chariots, and leaping over bulls. Images of women predominate in their religious practices where female deities like the Snake Goddess were worshipped and depicted in the art. Many scholars believe that Minoan Crete was a matriarchal culture ruled by a queen-priestess. This work imagines the rapport and relationships among the goddesses and women and locates them in their own utopic space –the good place that is no place; that is no where but anywhere.