Lifting the Veil: Observations

Inside this rural church the Mary, St. Michael and Jesus statues were all painted 'pink' the colour looked similar to the crayola crayon colour called 'flesh'.  The Black Madonna superimposed in the foreground is the same mold as the Madonna in the pink flesh tone.

Black Madonna

This is one of my versions of Our Reverent Mother, if you click on this link you will learn about the Black Madonnas painted during the medieval times 12century - 15th century. Black Madonnas of this time period can be found in the following countries: Belgium, Croatia, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Sicily (Italy), Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, USA.
This is a comment from that link, "Concerning why is she black--in Aramaic the language of Jesus--black means "sorrowful." It is a language of idioms. This links the Blessed Mother to Isis who was called "sorrowing" in her search for Osiris."

Untitled Matriarch Madonna

S.S.Wilson Collection, Parkland, FL.
Commissioned piece, oil on canvas.
Temporarily on loan to be viewed at the Sail Boat Bend Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale 03.21.09 thru 04.09