The Golden Seed

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The Golden Seed is a single-channel video, a moving votive image that celebrates the cycles of fertility: birth, death, regeneration. In its installation form: A dark passage leads into the underworld. In a low cave, light streams from a votive image moving slowly within a golden frame.
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Thiel is fascinated by the symbols that remain powerful even as the overlying belief system changes. In the Russian Orthodox church, gold is the symbol of light, immortality and divinity. The egg - and the damp, dark earth - are symbols of fertility and the cycle of birth and death. As the artist developed the work into an installation form, the visual and symbolic associations between the video and the pre-Christian Eleusian Mysteries - the Demeter and Persephone myth - became stronger. She began to see the video as a "seed" that could be planted into different settings, a video votive to enduring concepts of human cultures.