Portal to the Wild Feminine is a site-specific land art installation created in the woods of Wick Farm, a landscape long associated with feminine, pagan, and witch-lineage energies. Formed from cloth, yarn, string, paint, and gathered natural materials, the work opens a symbolic threshold in the forest—an invitation to cross from imposed identities into the raw, instinctual essence of the feminine.

Rooted in deep listening to the land, the installation engages cycles of time, memory, and ancestral presence. It gestures toward women as once-wild children of the earth—bodies in rhythm with nature, intuition, and collective knowing. The portal functions as both a physical structure and a metaphysical passage, drawing attention to what has been forgotten through disconnection and the disciplining of feminine power.

The project was created collectively with the women’s group The Third Way, making the act of creation itself an expression of shared sovereignty and care. During the installation, LeDuc experienced significant fatigue and health challenges. The collective’s willingness to step forward and hold the work—both practically and emotionally—became integral to the piece. Being supported by other women was itself a wild reclamation.

Portal to the Wild Feminine marks a passage from fragmentation to wholeness, from endurance to embodiment, and from prescribed identities into the uncontained, cyclical, and deeply alive nature women have always carried.