Jerri Allyn

                                



Sekmet / Oya / Guanyin / Claudette
RACY: Reclamation … Alive … Completion … Yes?
A sizzling reemergence of the Divine Feminine




Photomontage, archival digital print on canvas, hand sewn silk fabric frame, wooden rod;
5.5’L x 3.5’W x .25”D; with rod 6’L;
2023-2024.

Excerpt of ‘Claudette banner portrait.’ Photographers: Kmur Hardeman and Tomo Muscionico

Ideas addressed: Shedding negative body ideas, Divine Feminine, women’s agency, living full out.

BIO as relates to erotic power: After transforming at-risk youth lives worldwide for three decades Claudette (she/her) launched Taking Women Higher, sex education for women. Gathering of A T.O.U.C.H. + A Turned On You Creates Healing and Heaven, encourage women to expand their sensuality by generating new standards of beauty, shed the patriarchy’s grip, awaken the Divine Feminine, and live sexy, passionate lives. They walk away tuned in, turned on, and in their pleasure.

Claudette inspired by three deity’s: As an initiated Oya Orisha, Claudette represents storms, death, rebirth, and fertility in the Nigerian Yoruba tradition. Moving like a panther, she also embodies the mystical Egyptian goddess Sekhmet, known as ‘She who is powerful,’ with healing attributes. Claudette’s third inspiration, Buddhist Guanyin Bodhisattva, known for mercy reflects her educational work.

Aligned organization: A T.O.U.C.H. (A Turned On You Creates Healing and Heaven), USA;
https://www.claudettec.com/about .