See Yourself, Meet Yourself, Be Yourself

See Yourself
Through the Darkness and into the Light
Imagine Yourself. See Yourself
Yourself. Your Other Self
You know the one
The lonely one. The Sad one
The frightened one
The angry one
The tired one
The hungry one
The bad one
The sick one. The frail one

Meet yourself. Yourself
Your Other self
Hug Yourself
Love Yourself
Heal Yourself

Meet Yourself
Through the Darkness and into the Light
See Yourself
You know the one
The pure one
The beautiful one
The true one
The joyous one
The one that everyone loves
The one that’s always there for you
he one that can give
The one that can laugh
The one that can love
The one that is free

Meet Yourself
You know the one
The true one.  The real one
Hug Yourself
Love Yourself
Be Yourself

Be Yourself
Through the Darkness and into the Light
See Yourself
You know the one
The real one. The true one

Through Darkness and into the Light
See Yourself
You know the one. Yourself
Your Other Self
The Sad and the Lonely One

Look at Yourself. Yourself
You know the one.
Your Sad Self and your Beautiful Self

Through the Darkness and into the Light
Meet Yourself. Yourself
Your Sad and Lonely Self
And Your Real True Self
Your Beautiful Self

Hug Yourself
Love Yourself
Take care of Yourself

You know the One
The Real One. Yourself
Be Yourself
Be Yourself, In Love
"You Know the One" 1988

An installation exhibited in a store front gallery (Food Stamp Gallery) located at a check cashing store in Harlem, NY. This work includes text, paintings inspired by ancient tarot deck, and objects made of foam, plastic and cloth. The Text written in English and Spanish on colored acetate surrounded the window.







   
     
 
"Will You Have an Apple" 1999
Photo of the artist as a child in the Netherlands with Xerox images of Adam & Eve, green apples, and altar
 
     
 


 

"Surrogates on a Seesaw" 1987
Installation at Ceres Gallery with a group formed by the Feminist Art Institute. This piece was driven by new technologies, notions of birth and motherhood including surrogacy, and the concept of virgin birth.

Text was written on the back of each carnival type painting:
 

Virgin
As a child, I wondered why she stepped on the crescent moon and always wore a celestial shade of blue. I snickered at the notion of Immaculate Conception.” In this “Year of the Virgin Mary”, I have come to understand that she is the Ancient Moon Goddess---Mother of us all, a woman belonging to no man, true to her nature and instincts. She may have many lovers, but like the moon, she can never be possessed. Children born out of wedlock are said to be “virgin born.”

Whose Baby Is It?
In this age of the All Powerful Male,
My father regrets that he can not birth a child.

She conceives even though no love passes between them. Through nine bloodless moons the child grows within her house, under her heart. She is the mother. She uses all the powers and forces available to her in the struggle to keep her child. But on April Fools’ Day 1987, in a New Jersey court she lost her case. She is the virgin…Marybeth Whitehead.
The Goddess sits before this door with her arms and legs crossed, waiting.
 
 
 
"Graveyard of Lost Love" 1988
An installation and performance work at Bronx River Gallery including
Text: W.B.Yeats
“Hoping and Dreading All, I will love, suffer and submit”
Music: Sam Cooke “Cupid”