22/06/2025
You are allowed to rest, you do not have to earn it - This week as it is a new moon.
Artist by Cerena Parkinson
I went to my nephew's MFA’s show at Oxford and wanted to share this picture with you because it spoke so deeply to me as a woman.
I roots represent our roots—the roots of human existence, of women, and ancestrally. Next, we have food represented by the national dish of the Caribbean islands, Ackee. The vegetable comes from the earth and nourishes us.
As you make yourself up her body into her belly there's a child, but also an elder - from her lineage. For we as women carry the DNA of trauma in the lining of our ovarian eggs. So both an old and young person is at her stomach.
Climbing up into her chest sits a man. Nestled at her heart. ♥️ cause it’s where we feel and express love.
Before we reach her voice box, where she and the rest of us have been silenced and oppressed. There is another women, Perharps tramped - So when this woman speaks she speaks for all women. Unleashing her voice is for women past, present and future.
The gold in the painting is symbolic of her crown while the yellows, oranges and reds symbolise heat, fire, and passion. All the characteristics of the people of the Caribbean and the blue colours are the water. 💦
Water surrounding the islands, the journey they have been on to get there, and the fact that we are all made from water, 70%+.
So as a menopausal woman,
With our heat raising.
Trauma bonds awakened.
Ancestry talking.
Voices unleashed.
Relationships brought into question.
Water dying up.
How does the work of this up-and-coming artist speak to you and your challenges and transformations?
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