I have a fascination with stone angels, and religious art of all kinds.  it’s not the religion itself that I’m fascinated with, it’s the naked humanity of the artist that shines through in this type of work.  There are patterns and symbols that reappear frequently, but sometimes you see something askew from the  expected ones.  Some religiously themed art works strive to evoke reverence, or a certain morality; or a confluence of culture and the structure of institutions that perpetuate a theology.  Sometimes a work of art expresses outright spirituality and the joy of being human and facing a deity.  (Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ” is a good example.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ).

I was struck by a photo appearing in the national media of a chapel in South Africa, whose colors evoked the Piss Christ photo, and inspired the collage below.  From a prowling in a cemetery, I captured an image of an angel summoning the faithful with a trumpet.  Using a subtractive filter, I was able to add both texture and some new color interpretations of the scene.