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the procession is probably my most elaborate work and it took many years of working In 1980 when I did the painting which was 14 months, the original painting went to the Vatican Museum which was very exciting, Their collection of modern religious or When I came back

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to reinterpreting it and re making it as a paragraph. That was 24 years later there when you go back to something, you're bringing what you have learned into something that you've done in the past and you're refining it, you're making it more special and you're changing

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a lot of things, colors, patterns, ideas, shapes, I'm trying to regenerate and give more meaning to a newer audience. So the there are 54 scenes, 54 miniatures and as a young person when I before I ever did any artwork, I was always intrigued by the histories

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of the Gothic cathedrals, especially those in France and my my favorite is sharp cathedral where there's so many scenes of, of the scriptures and bibles in in those windows and sculptures and I like that people could look at them and even though they couldn't read, they

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could understand the, the artwork and that would be part of their lives. This is more influenced by hispanic culture as when I lived in England, I did many drawings to try to create an artwork of a procession, but it never quite um I didn't quite see

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something that it stimulated my imagination but I went to this procession in Arizona at this church that I talked about san Javier del bach In 1980 and it was uh there was a big procession and it was very wonderful. It was night time with people with

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candles and music and, and dancing but it was all done as part of a honoring and a service. It wasn't to entertain people, it was there to represent a special occasion, a feast of of one of the saints. So it right away, I knew I was

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ready to start and then that's when I began, that was the painting. But then after so many years of working in, in the printing in the paragraph, I felt I was ready to print it. And so it took me 12 months to print it. And 89

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printings of colors, which was the most I've ever done. But the final printing was very exciting, but it was difficult to conclude and I changed many aspects of it so that that there were newer ideas that came to mind and and I feel that the idea

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of stories and all the banners and the and the carvings and images around, they've all these are stories and we all are part of this community, people from every culture, We're all part of the human family and we all bring our stories. We all are connected

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to the past and to the present and we tell the stories. One important idea in this picture is that this artwork became a a source or a beginning for drawings for bigger work for other work. So when you walk around the exhibit, you can look and

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see other works that are found in miniature in this work. And and I wanted it to have a lot of feeling of celebration and people excited about singing and being in this procession.