“Seeds, Secrets & Other Hidden Places”
Drawings: Pencil, ink and soft pastel         Copyright  2007

"Receiving"	"Seed Goddess"	"She cannot hide who she is"
"She in the Earth"	"She in the field"	"Fertile Ground"
"Goddess of Nurture"	"Tools of Initiation -1"	"Tools of Initiation - 2 "

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Artist Notes                                                                                   ^

 I can’t really explain or dissect these drawings like they were a no fail recipe for apple pie.There is no right or wrong way to look, observe or respond to them.What I can do is at least think out loud and share something of myself, my feelings and ideas in the process….this is the creative journey…welcome.           

These drawings were taken from the hand held figurines that I made in the winter of 2005. These sculptures were a distant yet familiar memory of female figurines created by ancient agricultural societies, also known as Terraphims.  They  would plant Terraphims in the soil for the promise of fertile land and abundant crops. From these Paleolithic times feminine forms were found in the fields, temples, gathering places, tombs and ceremonial grounds where initiation, fertility, birth and rebirth took place.   

It somehow seemed important to make them, shape them, let them reveal themselves. It felt like I was picking up from where someone else left off. In fact about 100 Terraphims and tools were made around the time of winter solstice that year. Like winter seeds, deep within the stillness, the darkness, the void, the psyche of the collective feminine. Something was happening. My body also felt like a seed, full of possibilities and potential.  Seeds of creation, creativity ready to be planted into fertile ground, ready to take root like a winter seed. Sometimes this felt to me both masculine and feminine.  see drawing “Fertile Ground”. 

A year later in 2006 I decided to take on the mammoth task of drawing all the Terraphims that were made.  I wanted to discover more about them. How would I draw them? What environment would I put them in? What feelings would stir whilst drawing them? And stir they did….They reflect back at me feelings of power, presence,  vulnerability and surrender that comes just from looking at them. Taking the time to really see them, like being a witness, you see  “She cannot hide who she is”. That’s what creativity does for me, it brings me the truth, I find out about myself and about collective stories, images, feelings and thoughts. The images reveal something, I see something, I see myself, ... I cannot hide.                                                                                  Kathleen Grace Agius

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