The Aztec Virgin stands in a nice nicho with Mexican milagros attached around the frame, and it is constructed in the traditional style. It looks much like a traditional antique 19th Century nicho. Milagros, which are the name of the small charms nailed to the frame, are used by people to testify to specific miracles that a saint has done for them. When one asks for a miracle from a saint, such as the Virgin of Guadalupe, one makes a vow, which is known in Spanish as a manda, wherein one promises to go the a shrine or church dedicated to her and leave a milagro there. If the image that is the center of devotion in that shrine or church is inside of a nicho, the milagro would be nailed to the frame in many cases. In this particular piece, however, the idea with these milagros are to portray the prayers that she recieves, represented by the praying figures, and the way that she always watches over us, which is represented by the pair of eyes.

The Virgin of Guadalupe is the most famous saint in Mexico - the patron saint of Mexico, in fact. Known as the “Virgen Morena” - the brown skin virgin- Guadalupe was supposedly first encountered on the Hill of Tepeyac in what is now Mexico City only a few short years after the Spanish Conquest, by an Aztec Indian, Juan Diego, who was told to go and tell the bishop to build a temple on the spot where he first saw her. It happens that this spot is the same location where the temple of Tonantzin (“Our Lady” in the Aztec dialect, Nahuatl) was located. Tonantzin, on the other hand, was the recreation of an earlier Mother Goddess of the Indians who had been in the Valley of Mexico long before the arrival of the Aztecs.

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These pieces are made with recycled wood - Mexican fruit crates - or “rejas” as they are called - by the self styled "King of Taco Deco", the world famous artist and bon vivant Bryant "Eduardo" Holman.

From Fausto's Art Gallery in Ojinaga, Chihuahua.
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