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Listening Heart
embodies a vulva on one side and a pair of ears on the other that
references the vulva's consciousness, capable of listening.
Listening Heart reminds me of Eve Ensler's birth monologue in
that it references the consciousness and multi-layered meanings of
the vulva.
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Ensler’s (1998,
p.124-125) monologue on birth:
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I stood, and as I
stared, her vagina suddenly
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became a wide red
pulsing heart.
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The heart is capable
of sacrifice.
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So is the vagina.
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The heart is able to
forgive and repair.
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It can change its
shape to let us in.
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It can expand to let
us out.
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So can the vagina.
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It can ache for us
and stretch for us, die for us
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and bleed and bleed
us into this difficult,
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wondrous world.
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So can the vagina.
Replicas of Listening
Heart are available in a variety of colors for sale.
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References:
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Ensler (1998) The
Vagina Monologues. New York : Villard Books.
For questions or comments about Cydra's art, please email: womansculpture@icloud.com
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