Choreograph

In Linda Post’s pastel Aurora, a woman extends her hands toward the sky as a bird flies overhead. “Birds have long been choreographed into my work, sometimes as companions, other times as avatars of change, growth or escape. The conjunction of women and birds placed in enigmatic landscapes and seascapes evokes an especially vivid dream,” says Post. The artist cites a quote by writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams, from When Women Were Birds: “Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.”

Post continues, “The woman in this painting raises her arms to embrace the dawn at sea, accompanied by seabirds, her face lit by the rising sun. As she greets the new day, a part of her remembers when women were birds and mourns that existential loss.”