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      Letting my light shine

I ask how to enjoy having my work go out into the world. In answer to this question  we meet an ancient woman who has an intense desire of make a historical record of the ancient female wisdom.  She loves ceremony and decoration and wants to preserve some part of me by mummifying me and putting me into a beautiful sarcophagus. 
This ancient woman thinks I’m about 5 inches tall.  When I tell her I’m more than 5 feet tall she throws up her tools and eyes me and my newly announced dimensions for her next sarcophagus project, a much bigger one than she had originally contemplated.
Here I’ve made this fierce ancient woman down at the bottom of this wall hanging working on her 5 inch sarcophagus.  The picture below shows how she was when I first started making her.


Above is her is a bigger version of the sarcophagus. Later I made one of my parts framed there. Both sarcophaguses are made out of the back side of some bright stiff African fabric used for making hats.

 

Outside the sarcophagus, to honor the Ancient One’s love of ceremony and rhythm and to help contain this part, are hands and arms, somewhat reminiscent of an Egyptian style.  They offer a steady beat against a blue sky and white swirling cloud background.

The containing feels comforting but there is also a stirring to escape the sarcophagus or at least find a way to let my light shine beyond its confines.  The escaping part elects to send the burden up into the starry sky in a hot air balloon.   This is the way she becomes unburdened.  Now she can name the gifts that are naturally hers and be in communication with the Self, not caught back in the past that doesn't exist any more.

"Letting My Light Shine" was finished in early 2012.
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