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Mother and Child: Ebony 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 To all the present Mothers and Fathers, both biological and adoptive, thank you for guiding our next generation of 👑Kings and Queens👑 towards greatness. #melanin #education #love #family #motherandson #painting #themadonna #children #unity #blended #ihaveadream #nextgeneration #blackhistorymonth https://www.instagram.com/p/CKwV1z9BFSV/?igshid=dgfie6xgretr

Some healed some fresh. Memorial piece. #memorialtattoo #memorial #religioustattoo #mary #portraittattoo #portraitartist #healedtattoo #clouds #cloudstattoo #armtattoo #eclipse #themadonna #manchestertattooemporium #manchesterink #tattoo #artist #tattooartist #worldfamousink #kwadron #kwadrondroppen #ezcartridgecouk #ezcartridge #tattoooftheday (at Manchester Tattoo Emporium) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEz-s-1hOYC/?igshid=x175mfe90ywe

Menace with The Madonna

****Work in progress**** on the @ithurman "Mia Wallace Madonna" piece for the upcoming @tarantinoxx themed art show at @centralartsofbedford #practicemakesprogress #study #improve #paint #art #painting #miawallace #drugsarebad #madonna #themadonna #popart #pulpfiction #red #blood #goddamn #isaidgoddamn #localart #wip #workinprogress #drugs #painter #instagram #instadaily #instagood #instaartist

#tattoos #tattooart #tattooportrait done by @nycinkmaster @tattooritualny 516 249 1300 book your appointment at the shop #getinked #tattooed #inked #blackandgreytattoo #blackandgreyportrait #themadonna #virginmarytattoo (at Tattoo Ritual) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0qVqV7gUdm/?igshid=10bbd8c885hym

Wherever you go in Italy you find small nooks celebrating the mother in all her guises , as the Madonna , as the Goddess and as woman , mother ♥️ #mother #celebratingthemother #goddess #motherandchild #madonna #themadonna #madonnaandchild #art #history #italy #rome #villagelife #village #paesetto #paese #photography #travelphotography #inodeofmothers #motherhood #sacredmotherhood #womyn #womb #sacredfeminine https://www.instagram.com/p/BxsFGpbIbRS/?igshid=otdt86iiz8ls

The Madonna

La Rosa 12″ x 17″ Original Illustration

Commission for Shout Your Abortion’s GiveBig Thank You postcards. 

INSPIRATIONS My Catholic background plays a large part of the iconography I use in my work. Often times my politics and religious background clash. The subject of Abortion is one where it not only clashes it crashes. Here is a list in no particular order of my inspirations on the imagery.

Apple is commonly known as the fruit Adam and Eve ate to become conscious. I chose to include Apples as a sign for knowledge in much of my work. It’s also one of the many fruits my father picked as a migrant farm-worker. Fruit of the womb and Fruit of our Labor.

Pineapple, a symbol I interpreted while visiting The Black Madonna crested on Montserrat in Spain. She is an international pilgrimage for Catholics. High on the mountain she holds the precious baby Jesus in one hand and in the other an orb. At her feet are 2 pine-cone shapes. I’ve culturally appropriated these into indigenous Mexican Pineapples. This too is a symbol for knowledge.

Roses along with the fruit, roses symbolize abundance, fertility, growth. Thorns illustrate sharpness, hurt, and security measures we have to put up to protect ourselves. Although one can create life, we’re not validated by doing it. Women are not objects for pedestals. We can’t love this image of The Virgin and then deny her the right to own herself. Eyes in the roses look to her for wisdom. Stigmata’s absolves her from any sin we try to put on women.

La Rosa is wearing a Armored Nun Habit because on top of defending our right to Sex, we also have to defend our chastity.

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#themadonna (at Downtown Evansville)

my new oil painting SAINTE GÉLULE 195 x130 cm tribute to Caravaggio #instamoment #artcollector #art #artwork #artist #artgallery #vierge #marie #oilpainting #themadonna #sainte #contemporaryart #artcontemporain #instavideo # #amazing #tribute #religion #religious #prozac #museum Thierry Bruet, instagram.com

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! No matter who you are, I hope you safe and happy! I hope that next year, we will be better to one another regardless of race or creed. As per my Christmas Day tradition, here’s Jesus & Mary. Love you!! #merrychristmas #christmasday #christmas2018 #happyholidays #olittletownofbethlehem #jesus #jesusandmary #harktheheraldangelssing #bekind #sketch #sketchbook #artistsoninstagram #artistsofinstagram #christmassketch #art #artist #madonnaandchild #motherandson #motherandchild #themadonna https://www.instagram.com/p/Br0Q9I7HaY7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6sqlgx6aemq6

So digging this one. This may find itself on a stone sooner rather than later. #sketchbook #sketching #themadonna #lithography

She was here when we moved in, hidden behind a tree.. i am not religeous, but i think she will come with us when we move... #themadonna #marymotherofgod #prayforussinners #nowandatthehourofourdeath #amen

****Work in progress**** on the @ithurman "Mia Wallace Madonna" piece for the upcoming @tarantinoxx themed art show at @centralartsofbedford #practicemakesprogress #study #improve #paint #art #painting #miawallace #drugsarebad #madonna #themadonna #popart #pulpfiction #red #blood #goddamn #isaidgoddamn #localart #wip #workinprogress #drugs #painter #instagram #instadaily #instagood #instaartist

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