Mexican Wrapping Paper

It was my birthday this week.  It is only when your presents come wrapped in paper like this that you know your 25 year investment in a relationship was time well spent.  I liked the presents, but I loved the paper!  How well the historian knows my taste and where I get a lot of my inspiration.  For example:

Detail from shrine, 2009.

This is a transfer using acrylic medium of a postcard sent to me by another friend who knows my taste, Amanda.  Such a lovely piece, and I remembered to reverse it so that the writing is the right way round!  Here’s the full piece:

Madonna Shrine 2009

I probably like the back as much as the front:

Madonna Shrine reverse

This is the prototype that I made for a series of shrines about iconic Body Shop products.  I wanted to know if the construction would work and the thing would stand up.  I also learned about the way the edge of the very thick and wonderful to stitch handmade felt was stretched and thus the whole thing leans a bit.  I don’t mind this.  I think it adds to its fake antique charm!

Final example of how much I love my madonnas in their nichos:

Ann's business wisdom: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

And a detail:

Detail

(Frame made of old toothpaste tube and nail varnish, repousse-ed from the back with an old biro).   Final Madonna printed onto cotton ironed onto freezer paper and put through the printer:

Madonna del parto

That’s enough madonnas for one day, (ed.)