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La Loba, The Wild WomanShe represents our inner quest to find ourselves, the hidden dreams found in a cave of La Loba (She Wolf)
If you are not unacquainted with La Loba, here is her story as written in Women Who Run with the Wolves by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes:
There is an old woman who lives in a hidden place that everyone knows but few have ever seen. As in the fairy tales of Eastern Europe, she seems to wait for lost or wandering people and seekers to come to her place. She is circumspect, often hairy, always fat, and especially wishes to evade most company. She is both a crower and a cackler, generally having more animal sounds than human ones. She is called many names: La Huersera, Bone Woman; La Trapera, The Gatherer; and La Loba, Wolf Woman. The sole work of La Loba is the collecting of bones. She is known to collect and preserve especially that which is in danger of being lost to he world. Her cave is filled with the bones of all manner of desert creatures: the deer, the rattlesnake, the crow. But her specialty is said to be wolves.
And La Loba sings more and the wolf creature begins to breathe.
And still La Loba sings so deeply that the floor of the desert shakes. and as she sings, the wolf opens its eyes, leaps up, and runs away down the canyon.
Somewhere in its running, whether by the speed of its running, or by splashing its way into a river, or by way of a ray of sunlight or moonlight hitting it right in the side, the wolf is suddenly transformed into a laughing woman who runs free toward the horizon.
So it is said that if you wander the desert, and it is near sundown, and you are perhaps a little bit lost, and certainly tired, that you are lucky, for La Loba may take a liking to you and show you something--something of the soul.
~©Clarissa Pinkola Estes
And still La Loba sings so deeply that the floor of the desert shakes. and as she sings, the wolf opens its eyes, leaps up, and runs away down the canyon.
Somewhere in its running, whether by the speed of its running, or by splashing its way into a river, or by way of a ray of sunlight or moonlight hitting it right in the side, the wolf is suddenly transformed into a laughing woman who runs free toward the horizon.
So it is said that if you wander the desert, and it is near sundown, and you are perhaps a little bit lost, and certainly tired, that you are lucky, for La Loba may take a liking to you and show you something--something of the soul.
~©Clarissa Pinkola Estes
My Bone Collector doll, holds a bundle of bleached bones, painted with acrylics and fastened to wood with wire, her face was handcrafted with polymer clay.
Please visit the site of Lynn Dewart where she has some of the most creative Bone Dolls I have ever seen.
Please visit the site of Lynn Dewart where she has some of the most creative Bone Dolls I have ever seen.
Josua Meadows site has beautiful sculptures made of bones
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