This week’s Documented Life Project prompt was to use paint and to document “How do I face my biggest challenge?”
It took me a long time to ponder the subject for my page. I have experienced a wide variety of challenges in my life, from the small to the large, the simple to the complex, the flash-in-the-pan to the long-lived. My mind was flibber-gibbeting all over the place. Some ideas I dismissed outright as they were too personal. Then I had a bit of an epiphany. I realised there was a common thread to how I overcame all the hurdles and challenges I have faced in life: I just dig deep, tell myself I will overcome as generations have done before me, as others have done in much more difficult contexts, give myself a bit of a shake and get on with it.
I cannot even recall the mental segues I took to get from that thought to the Willendorf Venus but I decided a version of her would be the central image of my journal page. I used acrylic paint and inktense pencils to create my art journal page. I then stamped the phrase “I am woman; hear me roar” across the top of the page. My sons think this journal page is hilarious.
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Such a Beautiful and positive image 🙂 She reminds me of a Russian Doll, I imagine her belly full of smiling mini her
Now that’s a great idea! I did a matryoshka page in my art journal some time last year that was essentially me and my kids. A Willendorf Venus matryoshka could be fun. Thanks for the inspiration.
No worries… I think that Russian Dolls are a very interesting representation of women 🙂
Well, she made me smile too- for different reasons than your sons I suspect…… I see too much in your image to comment on here – but wow to your depths!!
Hee hee! Thank you.
Your Venus made me smile too. I think she looks like me chubby in all the right and wrong places. Haha! Your chosen phrase was very fitting for her too.
Thank you. She definitely looks more like me than most figures in art work that’s for sure. I think that might be why I like the Willendorf Venus.