the goddess of the shifting sands (2026)
Hand cut collage
Paper on paper, archival tape
17 3/4” x 9 5/8”
A woman rises from a landscape that looks alive… dunes folding and rippling like the inside of a gemstone. Her body becomes the axis where earthly desire, cosmic mystery, and feminine divinity collide. Honey builds her here as both creature and creator… a goddess born from shifting terrain, equal parts flesh, crystal, and metamorphosis.
The wings behind her echo the eyes of a moth… those ancient night navigators drawn toward whatever light they can find. Their patterns watch for danger, but they also guard her. Honey often reframes erotic imagery into something powerful… and in this piece, the transformation is absolute. The woman is not objectified; she is enthroned. The crystals erupting around her glint like tectonic forces breaking through the surface, as if the land itself is revealing what it has always held.
Above her, the agate planet hovers… a world built of strata and time, mirroring the terrain below. Everything in this scene suggests movement… a landscape that can change shape at any moment, a body that belongs only to itself, a goddess who emerges from instability with total self-possession.
In The Goddess of the Shifting Sands, Honey gives us a portrait of sovereignty… of a woman who shapes her own world, even as the ground shifts beneath her.