Modern Mandrake sketch
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
I was playing around with my more stylized style, and got into thinking about concepts like earth mother, gaea and mothering in general. It made sense to me to tie the stuff together in a picture that suggests that we in turn mother the earth when we do care for it.
My husband finds it slightly disturbing though.
The mandrake is a plant whose roots can resemble vague semblences to humans. It was pruportedly used in magical and pagan rituals. It was also in Pan’s Labyrinth – you know the creepy thing she stuck in a pan under the bed and fed milk and blood to.
