Working on a sculpture for a new ritual that I'll be doing soon. The object is starting from this reminiscent Greek statue I found in the garbage one day. It's this dramatic scene of a god, I think Mars or Aries, who has vanquished a foe and ladies are falling all over him. 

I decided to grind out the guy in this sculpture, and I'm planning on replacing him with a stain glass sculpture of myself posed in a similar position. 

I'm wanting to take this thing, a sculpture I see as the essence of what I don't like about the place of the woman historically-as something that is property or something to be won, and put myself, a woman, into that seat of power instead. Not that I actually want to be a creature that vanquishes men and has women falling all over me, but it's a symbol of me trying to put myself into a powerful position that's generally reserved for the historical male.

Meanwhile my other piece progresses-