Originally intended to be a commission, this one quickly took on a life of it’s own and it soon became clear that some other divine thing was coming through and having itself painted. Months of painstaking hand embroidery later she emerged, a wild sacred thing. Unlike anything I had created before. Discovered along the way that woman it originated from was writing a book on the Feminine Divine, and that ‘red thread’ has been referenced in spiritual texts for centuries…

‘Ten days in this temple and my mind is reeling!

Between my legs the red thread stretches and stretches.

If you come some other day and ask for me,

Better look in a fish stall, a sake shop, or a brothel.’

-15th century Japanese Zen Buddhist Master Ikkyu Sojun