Title:
The Holy Virgin Mary

Details:
2.5'x18"x12"

Currently in the collection of Andrew Glaysher at his mother's house in Madison, Wisconsin.

This was the first religious icon I ever made, and she was built in two phases. The first stage, done in 1996, was rough and utilized only a lamp-base as the main body. 3 years later, I came back to the piece, added the dress and a pregnant belly. Voila! Immaculate conception. She has a light inside her ribcage and a rosary around her neck which is from a shrine in Necedah, Wisconsin where the image of the Virgin Mary would appear to a young girl who also recieved the stigmata in the 50's. Afew years back, my friend who I traded this piece to for a painting suddenly returned from Spain because his mother was in the hospital, near death with a ruptured spleen. Miraculously, she came back from the brink and was soon doing fine. I like to think Mary helped.

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