Queens and Priestesses: Crowning Creation - Exhibit by Lisa DeLong

We are surrounded by signs and symbols that reveal powerful feminine principles inextricably interwoven throughout Creation: the pattern traced by the planet Venus, the starry body of the night sky (known to the ancient Egyptians as the goddess Nut), and the golden proportions in the structure of DNA that permeate every cell in the body our matriarchs gifted us with.

Many of the pieces in this collection work with a 10-fold pattern known in Persia as Um al Girih "Mother of Knots." Its structures generate a rich and infinite family of beautiful designs which share their golden proportional principles with life itself. These patterns form a woven matrix of golden protection and blessing that shines forth, even in the darkness.

Other paintings work with 12, a number associated with cosmological order and the rights and responsibilities of priesthood. This body of work is a meditation on the sacred feminine work…