James Cordova Arts

Retablo, 2002

Hand-adzed wood, home-made gesso, water-based natural pigments, piñon-resin varnish, leather.

Nuestra Señora de la Lúz (Our Lady of Light)

A Marian devotion that stresses her role as advocate and intercessor for humankind. Here she appears as the Queen of Heaven, holding the Christ child and pulling an impenitent soul out of the mouth of hell. An angel presents her son with a basket of penitent souls.