Internet Madonna
2020
Monotype, mixed media and text
24 x 22 inches
The Byzantine Empire is the only major world power that ever experienced political mayhem resulting from arguments about art. Several bouts of iconoclasm and accompanying debates about religious images eventually established "the place of art in society and the relationship of art to words.”
I incorporated the linguistically complicated concept of 'icon writing' in realizing the monotypes, marking prints with prayers, subconscious thoughts, sayings.