Weeping Virgin
Inspired by this feather mosaic that is identified differently on a few sites. https://colonialart.org/artworks/406B and http://52.183.37.55/artworks/20607
It was made around the 16th century and there are tons of other artworks of the weeping Virgin Mary. I used halftone dots to imitate the glimmering feathers in the original. This made me think of Roy Lichtenstein's pop art of crying women. Which made me think of drag culture with glitter lipstick and eyeshadow and how a culture like drag juxtaposes Christianity in a sense or is seen as sinful. I wanted to put all of these things in the same piece. And I added the roses in the corners to mimic the angels and have objects in the North, South, East, West positions that is common in works like this.
