This is the first in a series where I have been exploring the concept of fabric as landscape or figure. In still life, fabric is usually the backdrop to the objects that are the focus. Here, the tables are turned...in this piece, instead of having many objects on top of the fabric, most are underneath, giving the fabric its shape. I work from life, though this painting also has an element of surrealism because the cloth is set against a dawning sky and a visible moon. I wanted to evoke the mysteriousness of the caverns in which ancient peoples worshiped the goddess, in the days before male-oriented hierarchical religions supplanted those primal but vibrant devotions.