Sea Goddess
Yemoja’s Daughters: A Personal Journey in Embracing Change at Midlife
At fifty, menopause brought unexpected changes to my identity, especially around body image. Through creating Yemoja’s Daughters as Sea Goddesses, I learned to accept weight gain as a natural part of aging, moving beyond my lifelong association with being small & slender.
Initially, my figures depicted mermaids, which felt more like reflections of youth, and I soon sought figures that honored mature wombmen—the queens, elders, and sages shaped by lived experience. Inspired by Renaissance art and ancient goddess imagery, my Sea Goddesses began to represent full-bodied, nurturing beings: half mammal, half divine. These figures reclaim space for beauty as older women, celebrating boldness, wisdom, and inner beauty. This creative process helps redefine beauty for wombmen everywhere, embracing our curves and fullness as naturally balanced and gorgeous!
The Maine Slate Series
Series Introduction
Begun in Harrison, Maine, in 2025, The Maine Slate Series transforms imperfect and repurposed roofing tiles into intimate mixed-media worlds. Rather than conceal the slate’s broken edges, uneven surfaces, and original nail holes, Keita Whitten incorporates them into each work, honoring what has weathered, endured, and might otherwise have been discarded.
Layers of acrylic paint, textiles, found materials, gold foil, liquid-gold ink, and epoxy move across the dark stone in compositions guided by intuition and Soul Mapping.
Each slate becomes both object and story—a small, weighted landscape where memory, ancestry, nature, humor, and the unseen reveal themselves.
The original holes are used to wire each piece for hanging, allowing the slate’s previous life to remain physically present in its new form.
Water, Life, Flow
