Blue Madonna, Mother and Child 12×24 acrylic on canvas $225 SOLD
This Madonna emerged after layers and layers of lines and textures– I set out not to create a work of art but to pray. It started as a horizontal painting, the lines across it vertical, full of tension and confusion. When the image of mother and child started to take shape in my imagination, I turned the painting to a vertical orientation. The lines created in tension calmed when they became horizontal and visually connect mother and child as though the two are bound together by a series of taut strings. The two bodies dissolve into bolder, less constrained lines at the bottom of the painting and again mother and child are tied together, this time with a ribbon.
I’m still thinking about what it means to be a mom, what it means to believe in a God who was born of a woman. But in this painting, I relate not to the mother but the child. I’m tired and finding rest in this image, this idea.
April 5, 2014
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