Title: Center of Creation
Size: 42" x 60"
Year: 2008
Medium: Oil, 22kt. gold, sterling silver and copper metal leaf
with antique 24kt gold glazed ceramic mosaic on wood panel.
Wood panel is artisan made from reclaimed Ponderosa Pine planks
taken from the 1904 circa mill buildings that were razed for
redevelopment.
Image Inspiration:
This retablo was painted in the ex-voto tradition in gratitude
for the blessing of fertility. The Madonna - Conquistadora /
Guadalupe / The Corn Maiden - is at the center of life and
death. On either side the skeletons, pillars on each end of the
rainbow are guardians / ancestors / reminders of mortality's
part in the life cycle. Overhead a rainbow arcs to contain the
brightness of her being. Flora switches from dark to light,
from blood red to the dark of night and back again. A red stalk
of corn, the color of blood, is the spine of her body. It
springs from the crescent moon beneath her, the same moon
cradels the landscape of the earth. An green stalk of corn
stands at the side, as ever-present plant life.
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