Maya is at the Blue Mountain Fine Art Foundry for some well-deserved spa time. She will return sometime in 2023 or 2024.
Big strong hands invite you to touch and connect. Feel her strength and take a moment to relax. Her kind face gazes at you, perceiving your inner thoughts, your potential, your perfection.
In Japanese, Maya means truth. The figure is not a portrait, but it was important that she have an identity--a name that represents strength. Maya projects a state of mind and a future where equality and compassion reign.
As a monumental standing figure, Maya, is like traditional public sculpture, but her detailing makes her a purely 21st-century creature. While sculpting this piece the 2017 Women’s March and Movement fused in her stance and snippets of songs would repeat in my mind -- Beyoncé’s song “Run the World - Girls” and Nirvana’s “Come as You Are.” Maya is inspired by memories of many strong women and girls in my life: her curly hair from my mother, with her 1970s maxi skirts, the braided bun from my gray-haired British neighbor, bright, wide-open eyes from my young nieces. The plants on her skirt are bamboo shoots. A stalwart resource for food, clothing, shelter and defense, these emerging bamboo plants embody the past, present and future. All these details endow Maya with the power, resources and love to support you and welcome a glowing future.