Artist Statement

The idea of a "Milagro" image comes from Mexico and Italy where tiny, metal images of a hurt body part were pinned to a saint's image of Christ in prayerful hope for magical healing of the hurt body part. This "Milagro" is a plaster cast of my right leg, with yarn illustrating bone, muscle, and veins. After viewing Huichol Indian magical yarn paintings I used yarn as a linear media to describe the leg. My leg has had a series of injuries and surgeries. Images of veins are created from yarn for healing. I have the traditional Mexican colors of red, blue, green, and yellow to symbolize the four cardinal directions, as the leg rest on a cross section of a cochineal shell to evoke a centering place for healing. Tucked inside the top of the leg is an image of a snake, Mexico's major symbol for transformation.