Goddess on Nestle Bottle
Goddess on Nestle Bottle features a depiction (or effigy) of a Goddess trampling a Nestlé bottle in wrath. Nestlé is the global corporation known for selling water, while they in fact only produce plastic bottles, and steal ownership of freshwater, often from local communities. The Goddess, bottling up her anger, holds a dowsing rod pointed at her own center. Other elements on the carving look like tattoo art on stone or flower engravings in color. We also see a power-totem necklace, and a wide mushroom or placenta like corona.
It is a 297 x 420mm graphite, ink, acrylic ink and marker drawing in a frame, which is part of the Trans Neolithic Future series (2019-2021). These playful and visually enticing works can be seen as a personal interpretation of the various theories put forwards by archaeologists who propose that early European/Mediterranean societies were ruled by matriarchal systems.
- Goddess on Nestle Bottle was presented at Te Whare Toi, Wellington (NZ), IMPAKT Utrecht (NL), Dat Bolwerck Zutphen (NL), and. Vishal Haarlem (NL).
- Here is a video interview from 2020 where I talk about this series of drawings for IMPAKT Festival Utrecht.
- This drawing is part of the Re-Viving Matriarchy research.