The
Eye of the Goddess is one of a number of installations created during my stay
as a Fulbright Scholar in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It consists of seed pods used
by the native “Gaucho” to hold an herbal tea made from local grasses.
Sipping this tea is a cultural ritual and passion practiced by nearly everyone.
The pods rest on 33 porcelain plates on whose surface is written the name of
a different ancient goddess. Each plate sits on a lace paper place mat which
are then arranged to make the form a triangle. From each pod a white satin ribbon
emerges to meet its neighbor in the center of the triangle to form a canopy.
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