Mary Queen of Heaven
photoshop image for collage on canvas
detail
This is the image that I am working on now. Here you see the digital work that has been done. I have segmented this image into collage pieces to apply to a canvas. I printed out the pieces and cut the images into collagable segments. A background has been painted on canvas. It looks beautiful, cobalt blue and pthalo tint blue acrylic painted with loose and free brush strokes forming glowing rays onto the canvas. Now I am ready to glue the digital collage elements onto the canvas.
I am working on the canvas (24"hX16"w) and hope to get it photographed and posted here soon. The photograph may not happen soon, because it is spring and I am enjoying working in my garden.
This canvas continues the POP Religion series with a Mary is My Muse theme. It is similar to the previous work called, Mary, Queen of All. Which is in the collection of Donna Duffy, owner of Tripolo Gallery in Covington, LA. Both paintings are based on a common and easily recognizable, traditional Christian Mary picture.
In the heart area, shown in the detail, is a picture of Baby God Crying. Well, I think that we all have a squalling infant bundled in a small corner of our hearts. I am not sure about you, but I do at times experience infantile rage aching. My inner baby still screams from time to time, frustrated when she does not get her way.
Some of the input into the production of POP Religion, comes from introspection. Other input is traditional global religious myths. But, I am confused, still confused, trying to sort it all out. Actually, I am reconciled with being confused. Long ago, I decided that "not knowing" could be reframed as "appreciation of deep mystery".
Another theme that my work expresses is humor about the human condition. A condition so baffling and irrational the you gotta laugh.
When doing a collage, I try to put it all together, I use many images from my personal digital library created over a period of several years. Included here are Jagger Devil (a funny image), Belushi Bacchus, Marilyn Aphrodite, Ganesh, Beatles, and my high school graduation picture which I have Warholed. There are about 30 images arranged to fit into the traditional Mary picture.
Gotta go now, my garden is calling. Thanks for looking.
Gotta go now, my garden is calling. Thanks for looking.
