Domestic Goddess

Height: 37cm
Materials: Coffee pot, lamp parts, glass beads, curtain rings, table forks.
Date: 2016

Domestic Goddess is a piece of folk art, so like all such she’s not particularly original, you will find plenty like her out there in internet land. Folk art endlessly reuses motifs: Domestic Goddess' hands are table forks and she lives in a piece of retro kitchenalia. My kids really used to like that her earrings are curtain rings; a favourite movie was Planes, Trains and Automobiles where John Candy’s character makes quick money peddling shower curtain rings to various people, telling two young teens girls that as earrings “You know something? It makes you look a little older, too. I mean not just a little bit. You could pass for 18 or 19.”.

But she’s a happy thing to brighten a dull corner; or a dull day.

She used to have a flower but it got lost, I think she looks fine without it. I just made her when I found the old enamel coffee pot and the brass bit of a lamp that I turned into a hat. The other parts are just stuff I had to hand.