Finalist in 2012 Mandorla Art Award

Artist’s Statement

‘Elizabeth and Mary’, though prompted by Galatians, comes from Luke’s account of the ‘Visitation’; conflating that story with the knowledge Mary garnered from the prophecies she received regarding herself and the child she was carrying. The enormity, the import of these prophecies, creates an overlay of awe, perhaps fear, and generates a responsibility that accentuates the feelings every mother has for her pregnancy and its conclusion, and for the baby she is to bear. The landscape Elizabeth and Mary are in references old photos of the Church of the Visitation on the outskirts of Jerusalem.