I Was a 20th Century Lesbian > 3: We All Come From the Goddess

Annunciation
Annunciation
Watercolor woodblock (mokuhanga)
26" x 19" (66 x 48 cm)

In Christianity, the Annunciation is the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive a son.

Birth is announced by a literal rush of water that pours from the womb of the mother. The bands of color in this print are waveforms from a recording I made of myself reading a verse from an Indian scripture in which the Goddess asks how the world came into being.

20" x 14" (43 x 28 cm) image size
Made from 3 blocks, approximately 30 hand-rubbed applications of color
Edition of 4 on Kitaro Kozoshi paper