Our Lady of Roses

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=131 BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="3" WIDTH="107" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#C0C0C0" FRAME="HSIDES" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 27 WIDTH="99"><div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="J. 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Michael Walker</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="822"><div> <IMG SRC="2cfbc020.png" border=0 width="444" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="3" WIDTH="827" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#C0C0C0" FRAME="BOX" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 712 WIDTH="9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="712" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="9" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="344ccc30.jpg" border=0 width="460" height="707" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="712" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="6" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="298" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 44 WIDTH="292"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="44" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="292" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 138 WIDTH="292"><div> There are so many glorious depictions of the Virgin Mary in Latin American Virreinal art. Among them are the portrayals of Our Lady of Copacabana and Our Lady of Candelaria, which share the trait of Mary comprising a human face and a statue-like "body".shaped somewhat like a simplified mountain.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 97 WIDTH="292"><div> I gave "my" Mary (one of my invention) a number of traditional Marian attributes, albeit in non-traditional ways: her sacred monogram, a crescent moon, her garment arrayed like an "enclosed garden," roses, lilies, even wings.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 77 WIDTH="292"><div> A latin love song arcs across the hem of her garment, reading "I sing to thee alone / despise not he wishes only / to worhsip thee / who shines above him like a star"</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 97 WIDTH="292"><div> In my twin appearances as devotee, at lower left and right, I chant a Nahuatl poem by Nezahuacoyotl: "I raise my song of praise" and "Are you perchance some precious bird of the Giver of Life?"</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 97 WIDTH="292"><div> In Renaissance and late Gothic portrayals of Mary, she is often seen enthroned on an Oriental carpet (something then of great value, fitting for a Queen). I substituted here a Oaxacan weaving we own.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="712" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="9" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 102 WIDTH="9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="102" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="9" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="3" WIDTH="455" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#C0C0C0" FRAME="BOX" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFFBF0 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 ><NOBR><div> Our Lady of Roses, Lilies and Light</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 39 WIDTH="441"><div> by J Michael Walker, 1999</div> <div> Color pencil on paper, 80" high x 50" wide</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="102" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="6" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="306"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="102" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="306" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="102" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="9" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="886"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="886" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>