Feywood
The Magical Art of Beth and Zeeb
About the Artwork
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The beings that inhabit our mixed media work are magical, mythic, archetypal Gods and Goddesses are metaphors for universal truths, the unknowable forces of nature and mystery personified in human form. Some of the manifestations our work has included are Pan, Gaia, Grandmother Turtle, Ishtar/Ereshkegal, Hecate, Nuit/Nox, Aphrodite/Yamaya. On a more universal (less specific) level, the forces of nature cross many cultural boundaries as they become focuses of reverence and spirituality: Sun, Moon, Star, Night, Earth, Greening, Fullness Abundance, Harvest Death, Rebirth, the intangibles of emotion and psyche: Love, Power, Sorrow, Illumination....
The archetypal male and female pieces, witch, shaman, wise wo/man priest/ess, mystic; these pieces tend to focalize a particular strength, power, energy, emotion, psychological state. Those with more sexual overtones tend to work within the realms of female and male mysteries, and sacred sexuality, often inspired by the suggestion of yoni and phallus, intertwining limbs within the wood, polarities, and balances within the piece. Yoni the female organ of birth and sensuality, sacred and life-giving is suggested in many of the sensuous natural openings and portals within the wood.
Elemental Fey pieces emphasize the sacredness of nature on a more elemental level. Aspects of nature, a select force, season or quality takes on human characteristics while retaining the wildness, autonomy, detachment from human concerns that seem characteristic of nature as seen thru the eyes of faerie and faerie seen thru the lens of nature. Here are the anthropomorphic blending, the beings of magic, metaphysical, mythological overtones. So comes the realms of beings, glimpsed from the corner of the eye, or in the mind's eye. The merfolk, the shape-shifter, the dryad, the fairy, the fey, elven realms, elemental beings of earth, air , fire water, wood, stone, beings transforming, growing wings, tails, shells, beings emerging from the wood, abstracted and suggested.