Toni Putnam
The Strength It Takes to Be a Woman
by Robert Kushner
Toni Putnam sculpts the way some of us like to cook. She stirs together a wild, robust cassoulet of seemingly divergent elements. Her artistic ingredients have been fully steeped, marinated together until the outcome is integrated, savory and unique.
She quotes divergent sources - Cabala, or Jewish mysticism; Christian iconography; the cult of the Goddess - and she integrates them into statements that are appropriate and relevant to our times. Her many goddesses combine disparate messages, unifying them into a coherent whole. |
