Inanna's offspring Print

Inanna, the Queen of heaven, was a goddess of love, lust, justice, war and power in ancient Sumer. Her godly essence was later taken and transformed by Akkad, Babylon, Assyria, Greece and Rome, renaming her Ishtar, Astarte, Aphrodite, Venus, as centuries and armies passed. Her cult and representation opened a door into the feminine which academics, artist, and feminist theorists still explore. This work integrates original photographs taken in Istanbul of surviving fragments of the Marduk Processional Way that lead to the Ishtar Gate in Babylon; of Roman tile work from a Roman villa near Ephesus; charcoal drawing depicting the iconographic image of bonded Catholic and Orthodox Saint Sebastian, a sacrificial archetype that expresses in the asexualized western christian tradition an spiritual ideal trough voluptuous corporeality, diverging greatly from the Mesopotamian notion of divine sexuality, incorporating them into an image of ruin and creation, and perhaps, a look into the feminine through that which is not. .

Print:Giclee on Photo Paper

Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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