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  • books
    • all books
    • birds of a feather >
      • As The Crow Flies
      • Dumped for a Stripper
      • fight or flight
      • Icare
      • sanctuary
      • the dovecote
      • the birds and the bees
      • wrecked
    • body language >
      • anamnesis
      • covfefe
      • hem/o
      • hoax
      • jubblies
      • long blonde hair
      • Learning to Knit
      • perforate
      • THE END OF THE WASP SEASON
      • The Unfinished Blanket
      • tiny maps
      • TRIUMPH
      • veiled muse
    • forest through the trees >
      • the coyote's gift (in shadows)
      • day/night
      • house in the wood
      • little canopies
      • Grimiore
      • poison ring
      • tempted
      • remember me with affection
    • sheep's clothing >
      • 1954
      • buried in memory
      • I remember how we met
      • winter stayed late
    • troubled water >
      • life is but a dream
      • Limerent Object
      • loon lake
      • not this year
      • tea and water pipe
      • Tea Party
      • Telling Time
      • waves
      • what news
    • Seven Deadlies >
      • envy
      • gluttony
      • greed
      • lust
      • sloth
      • vanity
      • wrath
  • about
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Maiden, Mother, Crone

Girls learn early that they move through the world invisibly. Their skills, creativity, and intelligence will always be questioned, considered second rate or lesser to their male counterparts. They are considered objects to be subdued, governed their entire journey through womanhood. This invisibility often offers great insight no man could ever fathom.
Each large jar in the series of three represents one phase of the female life: girlhood, fertility, wisdom

Maiden 
She dreams big. She’s smart and brave and has everything to offer the world. But, most of all, she wishes she wasn’t invisible. She wishes and wishes and wishes…



Mother (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
Teetering between hope and despair, Mother, this time of fertility, is a messy scroll and never ending list, is nearly invisible, buried beneath rose petals, the endless gift.

Soft cotton paper scroll, pink and red foiled text, rose petals, smells delightful


Crone (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
Poison Ivy is often overlooked, blending into its surroundings, fading into the background. Even a close encounter with poison ivy is easily dismissed until days later. It’s nearly invisible.

Poison Ivy eco printed book bound with poison ivy vines, dried poison ivy leaves and v
ines.