Working with the light: Women of vision

In a true metaphor of feminist collaboration, sculptor Nancy Azara offers her spirit of art, therapy, and women's healing as testimony to the evolution of feminist culture, Like a blues chord that reaches way down deep to hook a dangling piece of heart, she fosters a complicated aching in a world of colors and textures. In her work, art, relationship, and therapy merge to evoke in women the unacknowledged in their lives, to make them visible and to give them reflection. The more our own experience is kept invisible from others, the more it becomes inaccessible to ourselves. The essence of women's art, therapy, and feminism is the migration across the boundaries of patriarchy and the transmigration with each other. This enables a journey home by literally making these experiences visible through women's art work, passing along our foremothers' culture. This is an invitation to enter the bloodhut and join the other women in the initiation of Azara's sculpture and her artmaking through a filter of feminist psychological theory centered in affiliation, engagement, and connection to others. Women's journeys to art lie in living in the tension of opposites-the beautiful, the brutal-that defines them and speaks to our existential guilt and the tension of creating our lives.