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The figure in flight conjures up a familiar female archetype - an angel - an arbiter between human suffering and transcendence. The use of the female figure - long a staple of Western artistic iconography - may be interpreted in a contemporary context of women's issues or as a matriarchal figure embodying the world's suffering. The ""Shrine of the Angels"" series utilizes color photo Xerox printouts of the source image for the Angels, several incorporating a lighting element and on a scale that can collectively be installed as a shrine. These life-size female figures gesturing upward in supplication depict a range of human injuries that we endure. They have taken on a religious connotation when installed in churches and function as transcendence and closure in the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial Project when the artist has included them in that project.

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The Angels constitute an almost serial consideration of the splayed (and perhaps flayed) body, hung as if crucified and bringing to mind the Crucifixion altarpieces of the early and high Renaissance. Peter Frank, Art Critic and Curator, 2017

The Angels constitute an almost serial consideration of the splayed (and perhaps flayed) body, hung as if crucified and bringing to mind the Crucifixion altarpieces of the early and high Renaissance. Peter Frank, Art Critic and Curator, 2017

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