ABSTRACT
As the archetype of the Great Goddess reemerges into consciousness today, women artists, through transpersonal visionary experiences, are bringing to light energic psychic forces, symbols, images, artifacts, and rituals whose configurations constitute the basic paradigm of a new feminist myth. Artists who are in touch with the archetype of the Goddess are using the female form in both image and ritual as an instrument of spirit-knowledge. Another integral part of the process of Goddess-culture art are the expeditions to caves, mounds, sanctuaries, shrines, or megalithic sites in search of the energy evoked and the artifacts or symbols of veneration left by ancient cults which worshipped the Goddess. The Goddess, then, is that archetype which mediates between image, energy, and history, evolving and unfolding destiny through the redirection of energy into a revolutionary manifestation of being. Buffie Johnson's paintings celebrate the natural symbols of the universe which were recognized as sacred in the worship of the Great Goddess.
