Durga, sacred Ash, Everyday goddess, Durga and Mountain lion, Native Durga, first buy people goddess, American Buddhist Art, FaithStoneArt, yoga

Sacred Ash is part of my everyday goddess series, My model is Native American from the Great Lakes region. I have her with a mountain lion. Durga is a protector goddess. I have been exploring visually the yoga idea that every woman is the goddess. My particular interest is to show this with buy ethnic diversity. I would like women of all color to feel that goddesses look like them.

I painstakingly hand carve a mokuhanga woodblock. Mokuhanga is the traditional Japanese style of woodblock prints. The block is printed onto Japanese Kozo or mulberry paper by hand rubbing with a barren. The inks used are sumi and watercolor inks. Mokuhanga is a labor-intensive old school printmaking practice. Typically a separate block is carved for each color.

Title: Sacred Ash
Size: 12x16 inches with double mat ready to hang
Medium: mokuhanga woodblocks on mulberry paper
Numbered, titled and signed by the artist