{"title":"Feminist \u0026 Ancient Stories Collection","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"original-beautiful-wrath","title":"(Original) Beautiful Wrath","description":"Original piece. Standard Canvas.\n\nDimensions: 12x12 inches\nMedium: Acrylic Paint.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43685151277115,"sku":"6749476","price":300.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/6563\/2059\/files\/beautiful_wrath-web.png?v=1782190323"},{"product_id":"original-ancient-bloom-venus","title":"(Original) Ancient Bloom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eORIGINAL PIECE. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eAncient Bloom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThe Venus of Willendorf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eEveryone calls the Venus of Willendorf a fertility figure but I don’t think she is. I think she could be a menopause figure. Or a matriarch. Or maybe she’s just… a fat lady existing in peace. And why is that so hard for anyone to accept?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThis body doesn’t automatically read as “fertility” to me. I, a 32-year-old, have that belly. Lots of women do. Especially women who’ve lived long enough to become elders or grandmothers. When I look at her, I don’t see a sexualized symbol. I see a matriarch of a family. I see someone who wants you fed and someone who comforts you when you’re sad. Someone who imparts knowledge to you. I see my mum.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eHumans are one of the few mammals that live long beyond menopause. Orcas do it. Elephants too. In those matriarchal groups, older females become essential. They carry knowledge, memory, survival.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eSo…why couldn’t this Venus represent that?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eWhy are\/were archaeologists so obsessed with calling Willendorf a fertility figure in the first place? A lot of archaeology, especially early archaeology, was dominated by white men. And I can’t help but wonder how much that has influenced their interpretation. Why was the assumption immediately “fertility,” instead of wisdom, age, comfort, abundance, survival or simply womanhood?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eWhy are we even calling them VENUS figures? That title was created by modern archaeologists thousands of years after these sculptures were made, named after the Roman goddess of beauty and sexuality. But Willendorf existed long before Roman culture. So why are we framing her through that lens at all? Calling her a “Venus” already pushes us toward seeing her body as sexual or reproductive, instead of seeing age, wisdom, comfort, survival, or simply a woman existing in her body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eSometimes though, I see me. A young woman, happy in her skin, loving her scars, appreciating the body she has - could it have been a self portrait? Because if you look down at your own body, especially without mirrors, this is kind of how I see myself. Breasts prominent. Belly rounded. Feet disappearing underneath you. The face less detailed because you can’t really see it from your own perspective.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eBecause then, it’s not about how a man saw a woman. It’s about how a woman saw herself. Maybe she wasn’t made for the male gaze at all. Maybe she wasn’t symbolic in the way modern academics want her to be. Maybe she was just loved. Like someone looked at an older woman, or any woman, and saw sacredness in her existence alone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eI hope that when I am old and have a body like this, I don’t hate the belly that kept me warm in the winter or the scars on a body that lived life to the fullest. I hope I can see myself with the same tenderness I see in her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eDetails:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e30x40 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eMixed Media on gallery canvas (Alcohol Ink, Acrylic, Oil Pastel)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eDouble reinforced canvas frame\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eReady to hang\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43685151309883,"sku":"J559904","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/6563\/2059\/files\/GinaRussiPhotos-146.jpg?v=1784321747"},{"product_id":"8x10-babygirl-print","title":"'Babygirl' Fine Art Print","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-end=\"739\" data-start=\"238\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"268\" data-start=\"238\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBabygirl\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-end=\"739\" data-start=\"238\"\u003eBabygirl, \u003cem data-end=\"268\" data-start=\"238\"\u003eYou Hold the Power\u003c\/em\u003e was inspired by the lyric from Aretha Franklin's \u003cem data-end=\"342\" data-start=\"318\"\u003eA Rose Is Still a Rose\u003c\/em\u003e, a song that became the soundtrack to an important chapter of my life. In 2021, I moved to Castlegar, British Columbia, to live with an incredible group of young women who brought warmth, friendship, and laughter during a time when the world was still recovering from the isolation of COVID-19. One of my housemates, Nat, played this song often, and its message stayed with me.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1049\" data-start=\"741\"\u003eBeing far from my family in Australia and New Zealand wasn't easy, but that house became a place of healing and rediscovery. It reminded me that even when life feels uncertain, the strength to keep going already exists within us. 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I think she could be a menopause figure. Or a matriarch. Or maybe she’s just… a fat lady existing in peace. And why is that so hard for anyone to accept?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThis body doesn’t automatically read as “fertility” to me. I, a 32-year-old, have that belly. Lots of women do. Especially women who’ve lived long enough to become elders or grandmothers. When I look at her, I don’t see a sexualized symbol. I see a matriarch of a family. I see someone who wants you fed and someone who comforts you when you’re sad. Someone who imparts knowledge to you. I see my mum.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eHumans are one of the few mammals that live long beyond menopause. Orcas do it. Elephants too. In those matriarchal groups, older females become essential. They carry knowledge, memory, survival.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eSo…why couldn’t this Venus represent that?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eWhy are\/were archaeologists so obsessed with calling Willendorf a fertility figure in the first place? A lot of archaeology, especially early archaeology, was dominated by white men. And I can’t help but wonder how much that has influenced their interpretation. Why was the assumption immediately “fertility,” instead of wisdom, age, comfort, abundance, survival or simply womanhood?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eWhy are we even calling them VENUS figures? That title was created by modern archaeologists thousands of years after these sculptures were made, named after the Roman goddess of beauty and sexuality. But Willendorf existed long before Roman culture. So why are we framing her through that lens at all? Calling her a “Venus” already pushes us toward seeing her body as sexual or reproductive, instead of seeing age, wisdom, comfort, survival, or simply a woman existing in her body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eSometimes though, I see me. A young woman, happy in her skin, loving her scars, appreciating the body she has - could it have been a self portrait? Because if you look down at your own body, especially without mirrors, this is kind of how I see myself. Breasts prominent. Belly rounded. Feet disappearing underneath you. The face less detailed because you can’t really see it from your own perspective.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eBecause then, it’s not about how a man saw a woman. It’s about how a woman saw herself. Maybe she wasn’t made for the male gaze at all. Maybe she wasn’t symbolic in the way modern academics want her to be. Maybe she was just loved. Like someone looked at an older woman, or any woman, and saw sacredness in her existence alone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eI hope that when I am old and have a body like this, I don’t hate the belly that kept me warm in the winter or the scars on a body that lived life to the fullest. 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