1. GAIA:  'Study for Gaia'. On display at the SSS Sculpture Trail,
   

RHS HYDE HALL, Chelmsford

GAIA
Earth goddess, mother of all nature.
This project seeks to honour birth mothers who are separated from their children.

Exploration and development of concepts
1.) Video still
2.) Modelling form in clay
3.) Image credit: The Mother’s Role in Bergman’s Persona Filmint.nu/?p=10631  - I propose that the thread is Bergman’s image of his mother, the face that Bergman said he was always searching for in his films (Singer 2007: 12-13).
4.) Image credit: Videodrome - David Cronenberg
5) Woodblock print
6). Collage. 

Study for Gaia (I)* is a prototype sculpture for a project in deveopment: 'Gaia - Big Head (I) .

The prototype can be displayed in several ways:

1. Hung (with or without the ripples projection)
2. Partially submerged (with or without a motor that creates ripples)

Gaia - Massive portrait sculpture.
Concept - Evocative memory of first connection to the mother.

First love is first engagement beyond the self to mother (or primary care-giver), the locking of eyes and gaze between mother and baby. This fundamental wonderment is akin to big-screen cinematic close-up, hence the adoration we give to those stars of the silver screen. The monumental contrast in scale of mother to baby is a viseral dynamic that can be evoked by large scale sculpture.
The intention  is to exhibit the Gaia in a sculpture park.

Gaia- Massive (series) - Intended as a series of tactile interactive sculptural portraits which encourage audience participation. The audience will be invited to  reach out and trace the contours of a face that resembles their own.
The intention is for Gaia sculpture to evoke the dance of intimacy between mother and baby, allowing the audience to repeat pre-verbal connections.