Expanse

This work, 'Expanse', was made for  a friend. She is a  midwife. Her vocation inspired the work, a stone carving made with hand tools. Texas Cream Limestone is firm, and yet does not require power tools to carve.The stone does have some fossil presentation to navigate around, through.

I have been fortunate to experience birthing three times, which helped impart the emotions involved in 'Expanse'. The birthing process involves an uninterrupted segment of time that the mother engages with, a bodily engagement of intense passage with involuntary  movement and intrinsic thought, feelings guiding, extending her corporeal self, spreading and contorting her self, expanding her body to allow the emergence of what has been growing within. Birthing is an extension of conception and its development arching, emerging from the body. 'Expanse' shows the inherent process, the fundamental nature of conception and resultant birthing and what is bound between mother and emerging child.

'Expanse' ~ in progress
This work is about the birthing process
Texas Cream Limestone. 8 x 5 x 6 inches

'Expanse' ~ in progress
This work is about the birthing process
Texas Cream Limestone. 8 x 5 x 6 inches

'Expanse' ~ side view
This work is about the birthing process
Texas Cream Limestone. 8 x 5 x 6 inches

'Expanse' ~ back view
This work is about the birthing process
Texas Cream Limestone. 8 x 5 x 6 inches

'Expanse' ~ top view
This work is about the birthing process
Texas Cream Limestone. 8 x 5 x 6 inches

'Expanse' ~ front view
This work is about the birthing process
Texas Cream Limestone. 8 x 5 x 6 inches