Sundust by Sara Golish

Canadian artist, Sara Golish, brings us these absolutely stunning illustrations of fictitious African sun goddesses! Golish represents tribes from Nigeria, Zambia, South Africa, Egypt and many other countries, and imagines how their sun goddesses would look. Every aspect of these illustrations is deliberate - either depicting tribal identity (e.g. the Nigerian Igbo and the South African Ndebele) or representing features of the sun.

“Around the world, nearly every ancient culture has celebrated the life-giving power of the sun on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. Sara Golish marks this celebration with her series Sundust, a salute to the fertility of the sun goddess through ten portraits of women from the continent most touched by the sun's embrace - Africa.

Compelled by the lack of female personified sun deities, Golish aims to revise and re-examine the male-dominated sun god through the recasting of the past in order to re-envision the future. The ladies of Sundust represent and celebrate all that is light, powerful, and life-giving.” ~ Sara Golish

See some of the sun goddesses below.

See more of Sara Golish’s work here.