Candles For the Altar
Acrylic, collage, and wax  on paper, 24" x30"

My Mama was a midwife, married to a migrant farm worker, and the mother of six.  She simply had no use for the Catholic Church, or drunks for that matter. Nonetheless, our home was never without a few small framed pictures of an assortment of saints. When things were tough --- and they often were --- I watched my mother late at night, lighting candles and talking quietly to the saints.