Carla Goldberg

What we as humans perceive is not the true intentions of the Goddesses, for Goddesses do as they please and play with all the elements as mere toys just for their own pleasures...

In my interpretations, it is the Goddesses female torsos under the watery depth of the river that form the peeks and valleys of the underwater terrain. 

I have been working on this series of mixed media paintings since January of 2009. I give liberal license to the stories behind the histories, myths and legends of the Hudson River exploring the playful and vengeful sides of the River Goddesses of the Hudson. It is the interaction of Goddess affections and jealousies, in play with Earth, water and the human world that puts the viewer as witness to the wave action and radical weather phenomena unveiling before their eyes.

When anything amiss happens on the river, blame it on a Diva Goddess. She just wants what she wants in that Diva sort of way.