frau
außen und
innen
ganz
frau
lebe ich
rund
träume ich
dunkel und
bunt
denke ich
durchdringend
ruhe ich
in mir
rufe ich
mein du
runde ich mich
um mein kind
gebäre ich
mein gedicht
berge ich
mein gebet
auch mein gesicht
ist lehm und
licht
ist ebenbild
Christina Egan © 1990
My early vision of my identity as a woman holds: centred around marriage and motherhood as well as thought and art, different from a man but absolutely equal — created from the same clay, not from a rib, and from the same spirit!
The central image is the round shape: this person is somehow round, gentle; she is rounded, balanced; bending herself around other things and other people in a natural impulse. Only her thoughts can be straight and piercing!
Jewellery from Lanzarote, made of lava, olivine, lapis lazuli. Photograph: Christina Egan © 2017.