Ariadne: my wild wonderful and divided womanly mind.

Ariadne: my wild wonderful and divided womanly mind.

£260.00

Mixed media with a vintage (replica) medical model of a skull, rare vintage corals, shells and vintage glass beads mounted on a vintage wooden silk spool.

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Ariadne:my wild wonderful and divided womanly mind’ is created from an old anatomical replica of a female skull, divided for closer examination of inner workings. This representative fragment of a feminine mind is filled with shells singing songs from past experiences and wildness and both natural (apparently harvested on the holiday of a friend's grandparents and left forgotten for many years in an attic wrapped in newspaper dated from the late 1960’s) and tamed (from a vintage necklace). coral. Ariadne is mounted on an antique silk spool, winding and unwinding memory, experience and desire.