The Priestess
A standing female figure, roughly one hundred and forty centimetres, carved from pale wood with a raw grain. Both arms rise vertically, parallel, ending in stumps: the hands are gone, and the gesture stays held between offering and invocation. A long vertical fissure, opened by the wood itself, runs through the nude body. The one added element, a necklace of dark beads, falls from the nape to the lower torso and cuts through the blond verticality of the block. A tutelary presence, caught in a moment whose liturgy we do not know.
In the video, The Priestess holds a broom. That broom is a separate work, “The Broom”, shown below.
Related workThe BroomFrom the priestesses of ritual traditions to Niki de Saint Phalle's *Nanas*, the standing female figure carries a frontal power. Here exuberant colour gives way to the gravity of pale wood; the scale, though, already calls for the threshold of a temple still to be invented.