Mim Weisburd is a Bay Area artist whose works focus on transformation both in materials and subject matter. Mim received her BFA from CCAC in 1995 and her Masters in Expressive Arts in 2009 from CIIS. She has shown her works throughout the United States in exhibitions and crafts fairs and uses recycled, upcycled, found, rescued and organic materials to create shrines, jewelry and other sacred objects. Mim transforms discarded, abandoned and devalued items into precious keepsakes that celebrate many aspects of the divine.
Statement
My work is about transforation. Many of the items I use were once considered trash, sacred images thrown out, or given away to thrift stores, things that are considered of little or no value and reclaimed and imbued with new meaning and reverence. The pieces I am submitting to Body Politic celebrate several aspects of the Divine Feminine. Sensuality, sexuality, abundance, prosperity, creation, birth and renewal. How are these works political? The dominant paradigm of patriarchy refuses to acknowledge that all life is intrinsically sacred and that everything living on Earth is interconnected on both physical and spiritual frequencies. This worldview enables and condones the destruction of our natural environment and the degradation of all aspects of the feminine. As I said my works are about transformation, in them I lift up the need for a balanced and harmonious world that works for everyone.