

Anne Ornish’s ICON: The Mother Key transforms the gallery threshold into a monumental participatory portal—an illuminated, womb-like passage that invites visitors into a living rite of passage. Fusing sacred architecture, somatic ritual, and mythic symbolism, this trans-sensory installation reclaims the body as altar, the feminine as source technology, and the act of crossing a threshold as a communal awakening.
Here, the sculptural yoni is not a symbol to be observed, but a frequency to be entered—a myth made physical, a transmission rendered in form and light.
In an era of synthetic identities and cultural forgetting, The Mother Key arrives as sacred interruption and communal mirror. It speaks not to gender, but to genesis; not to anatomy, but to agency. Participants pass beneath a gleaming sculptural clitoris—reclaimed as a glyph of sovereign pleasure—and through a corridor of golden eggs embodying initiation, memory, and future codes of becoming.
More than an artwork, this is a mythic reactivation: a portal that does not ask to be admired, but to be inhabited. Each encounter becomes a personal ritual—a re-wombing, a remembering, a return to source.
Why This Sculpture, Why Now?
In a world unraveling and remembering itself, ICON: The Mother Key arrives as both threshold and mirror—a sacred architecture through which the feminine reclaims her place as origin, oracle, and sovereign force.
This is not a sculpture to be viewed—it is a portal to be entered. A living rite designed to reawaken the body as temple, the breath as prayer, and presence as power.
As systems collapse and deeper truths rise, The Mother Key invites us to cross from forgetting into remembrance—from fragmentation into mythic wholeness.

The Portal
At the heart of ICON: The Mother Key stands a radiant, mandorla-shaped threshold—a sculptural yoni of gold and shadow, form and feeling. It is not simply to be seen. It is to be entered.
This is living architecture—a ritual structure encoded with ancient forms: the vesica-piscis, the womb, the eye between worlds. It evokes temples and tombs, gateways and grottos—spaces where transformation occurs not as metaphor, but as embodied initiation.
Crowned with a crystalline clitoral beacon, the Portal reframes feminine power as exalted, centered, and seen. Here, the apex is not absence—it is revelation.
Crossing the threshold is a rite of return—where every body becomes the vessel and the voyager, the altar and the offering. To step inside is to return—to yourself, to the source, to the shared sacred within us all.


It Asks...
"What if the return to self was not an idea, but a living architecture-designed to reawaken our creative power and align us with the origin of it all?"
"What if the return to Source was already encoded within us?"
-Anne Ornish

Invitation:
Step through the unseen.
Let what no longer serves dissolve in the golden veil.
You are not entering a space-you are entering your Self.

Activiation:
"I cross the threshold with reverence. I am ready to remember who I truly am."
