Virgin of Fertility: 

This character with a porcelain head is giving birth to a bisque baby and is surrounded by eight small bisque babies. Her body is covered by many silver Milagros, burning hearts, crucifixes, Coptic crosses, ivory charms and she wears a necklace of tiny bisque legs and tiny bisque arms. On her head she wears a crown of wildflowers and feathers. By her side rests a lace Baptism card. She is embedded in a box of silk flowers and berries and stands on the back of two fossilized sea horses. All pieces are of archival quality and hand sewn.

Exterior surface of Altar Box:

Decoupage of vintage photographs from Mexico, tarot cards, 1940’s deck of playing cards with pin up babes, saints and cures, vintage Mexican stamps, wine and cigarette labels. Decoupage hand painted with pigments and braised with gold leaf and sealed with archival varnish. The finished boxes are placed within an exterior handmade mahogany box that can stand on a surface or be mounted on a wall.

Dimensions: Height 20 inches, Width 11 inches, Depth 5 1/2 inches

The locust eats the cricket that feed on the dung of the tortoise in the burrow called home away from the eagle’s pendant eye.
de Soto having lost his thirst for gold when he died left behind in effigy tribes disseminated by disease brought on by his missionaries.
The white cross. Growth of plants stimulated by fire
Starch used to make bread when maize was sacred.
Flayed goddesses, the female being revealed
A virtual landscape of sacrifice
Dialectic between the earth and the sun
Blood and plant growth
Stories of God and the dark seepage of family stuff and sexual intimacies.Meanings played out throughout the medium of the human body, in each Human sacrifice. Virtual Life form, the female being revealed.

Mexica has been and will be again part of the vegetable cycle.
Flesh = maize
Blood = Sun
Sacred Maize
Sacred order
Sacred Anus of the Sun