Friday 12 April 2019

cycles in wax





The reason this womb has petals is because it buds, blooms, sheds its seeds and petals, and changes its form, a lot like a flower does. The cervix changes position throughout the cycle. Seeds are lost, so is flesh, so is blood, like sap. But the womb is perennial, unlike many flowers. Maybe more of a shrub.

I want to make a series based off the first petaled womb, 4 wombs- 


1-Menstruation. Many petaled, open, almost wild

2-Follicular phase. Small petals. Budding. preparing itself to open.
3-Ovulation. Still small and soft but ridged and ready to seed.
4-Luteal phase. Soft, smooth, small and thick, like a bed readying itself for fertilized eggs.


This is the smaller womb, the follicular phase. It's almost right but not quite. I want the two wombs to be like sisters; the same size, same sized holes, same distance between them. this one is a little sloppy but at least making it clarified some things about the process for me; I know now that it is important to be in a warm room while making it, important to use very clean tools, important to join the petals in a certain order so that the joints don't show.  

It might be worth thinking about the possibility of really observing the numbers of the cycle; 28 days average. 4 phases. 80ml blood loss average. 450 periods a lifetime average. 1021 eggs lost per period. 
This is very interesting to me. I visualise the eggs like sharp, tapered little pearls. Or like white sea glass, almost uniform in shape. 








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