Made for the QuiltArt Icons, Saints, Bodhisattvas Challenge. Displayed at PIQF in October 2004, Sacred Threads 2005.

Statement: The Venus of Willendorf is the first goddess image that I connected with. Made of limestone during the Paleolithic, 25,000 BCE. Thought to be a fertility figure and thus named "Venus". Hundreds of these have been found in Europe, they fit in the palm of your hand. I would love to hold one someday. And now She is popular. An Icon! On t-shirts and fridge magnets everywhere.

So here She is in Her shrine.

Materials: All my hand-dyed, discharged cotton fabrics.

Icon: Venus of Willendorf

February 2004

34" h x 38" w

Made for the QuiltArt Icons, Saints, Bodhisattvas Challenge. Displayed at PIQF in October 2004, Sacred Threads 2005.

Statement: The Venus of Willendorf is the first goddess image that I connected with. Made of limestone during the Paleolithic, 25,000 BCE. Thought to be a fertility figure and thus named "Venus". Hundreds of these have been found in Europe, they fit in the palm of your hand. I would love to hold one someday. And now She is popular. An Icon! On t-shirts and fridge magnets everywhere.

So here She is in Her shrine.

Materials: All my hand-dyed, discharged cotton fabrics.