Honouring our grandmothers and mothers generations
I am grateful for the knowledge I inherited and the examples they have left to me. I recognise the different struggles they overcame in their life times. I observed how little they used the words vulva, vagina and clitoris. Now I have learned to use these words without hesitation. My hope for my daughters is that they will live with the full glory of their femininity, fertility and spiritual sexuality.
The Vagina Slide is not about making our male counterparts feel inferior but instead it is about reclaiming and celebrating men and women's bodies in a time where more and more, both men and women, are made to feel more like objects of desire and used as adornment. The Vagina Slide offers a counterbalance to the over sexualised messages we receive daily through the media.
Rejoicing in our asymmetry, imperfections and stretch marks as trophies of wisdom and experience. The Vagina Slide offers reconnection with our natural state, our spiritual state, instead of the disconnection we increasingly tolerate in a society. Where the size and firmness of our breasts continues to be more important than our ability to feed our young, (and be proud to do so)!
To reclaim time as an organic rhythm, marked by the seasons, the start of each day with sunrise, the end with sunset. The rhythm of our months defined by moon cycles, the rhythm of our pregnancies and births not determined by the clock, permitting us as individuals to reconnect with ourselves, in nature and the rhythms created by nature. To live again in harmony. This is represented by the clock with no arms to mark time. Using a collage of textures and volume to create a mothers interpretation of the birth experience. The dimensions of the vulva represent the sensation one has postnatally. While choosing fabrics, we have intended to create the luxury and warmth of the birth canal, materials which highlight the contrast of sensations our babies can experience.
The uterus offers us a symbol in a spiritual sense - our first home, a sacred space, a receptacle, where we all start out. Our own birth story and the birth stories of our families, how this builds the patchwork of life, connects us to the past, present and future. Celebrates the bravery and wisdom, glorifies the process of reproduction and the giving of life. All this energy is sewn into the
patchwork used for the clitoris, and the labia mayor.
