Jayde Nesci
i: @moonstonemistress_
Jayde Nesci is Melbourne based, and is beginning to make her way as an emerging artist. She draws much of her inspiration from nature, mythology, music, and spiritual endeavours. Jayde works to incorporate mystical and elusive elements from her inspirations into a semi-realistic portrayal. In Jayde’s artworks she commonly uses charcoal or graphite, as well as acrylic and oil paint. Art has always played an important part in Jayde’s life as she believes the materials work as tools to make the unseen seen. Jayde searches to find the beauty and duality in all things both within and without. Thus, being able to use visual art as a language that bypasses what is written and spoken.
Hathor
2026, Charcoal and graphite.
31 x 26 cm
Hathor is the depiction of the Ancient Egyptian goddess of laughter, joy, and love, as well as destruction, scorn, and vengeance in her dual form as Sekhmet. I have incorporated the ears of a cow as ancient depictions of Hathor identified her with the head or ears of a cow. Hathor is referred to as “Mistress/Lady of the West” because when the sun sets her radiance acts as a welcoming beacon for the souls of the departed as they reach the afterlife. The goddesses radiant presence brings abundance into the day, and illuminates the night.
Hathor reflects the liminal spaces in the cycles of day and night as they bleed into one another. New Moon reflecting the embracement of the darkest cycle of the moon as a time for renewal and regeneration. Whilst Hathor is correlating to the radiance and beginning that rises with the birth of a new day.