Thursday, January 24, 2019

_COR UNUM ET ANIMA UNA_

COR UNUM ET ANIMA UNA
Oil on cradled canvas
4’ x 4’
January 4 – 24, 2019

This is the Visayan portrayal of Mary for Maryhill School of Theology. Mary wears kimona and patadyong. In the background are different samples of woven, Visayan cloth, hablon and cotton patadyong fabric. The CICM slogan is in the foreground.

This painting was designed to hang above the stairwell, directly over the steps, leading from the second floor to the third floor of the library. It is therefore visible only to people descending from the third floor to the second floor.
This was the auditory stimulus I used for this work. I listened to it a lot when I was a college student, and it was a pleasure to listen to it over and over again while I was making this painting: