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Elizabeth"
1997
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"Mary Takes her Son from the Temple" collage/assemblage
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| "Mary Visits
Elizabeth"
1997
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"Mary Takes her Son from the Temple" collage/assemblage
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Artist's Statement
| Exploring the image of Mary and Jesus that the artist grew up with led her to a discovery of richly diverse images of Mary, other archetypal women, and the feminine face of God. Like Marian icons from previous centuries, these cut paper collages reflect figures and faces of women living at the time the pictures were made. By joining old images with the new such as ancient Byzantine pictures of Christ with contemporary women and children from all over the world, the artist provides the viewer with multiple entry points into the pictures. |
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Traditional symbols of the bird, vessels, and angels are combined with the precisely cut photographic figures and small bits of lace or cloth. Each individual element in the collage retains its own identity, history, and implications, at once contributory to and independent of the collage as a whole, thereby enriching the layered surface of the art work with multiple layers of meaning. |
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On the one hand, these collages call to mind the scriptural stories in which God interacts with Mary and also the images of sacred motherhood made by artists throughout western history. Yet these contemporary figures of women remind us that women of today are also called to be bearers of Christ, to carry on the mission of Mary and Jesus in our own time. |
ROSEMARY A. LUCKETT
SECOND RIVER STUDIO
12379 HUNTERS GROVE RD
MANASSAS VA 20112
Tel. (703) 791-3615 Email: roseluckett@msn.com
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