Title:  Private Veneration And Indigenous Beliefs
Medium Mixed: Assemblage / collage, assorted memory ram sticks, semi precious stone beads, electronic components, resistors and transistors. Also Includes gold leaf oil paint over acrylic
on specialty white pine board
Size: H-47½ x L-2 4 x W-1.
Year: Spring of 2023

The words retablo and ex-voto have become almost synonymous. Although retablos began as paintings on canvas, their popularization shifted the medium to tin, which remains the classic expression for ex-votos, though in practice almost any surface may be used to prepare an offering, including wood, Masonite, cardboard, paper, and even plastic. One final votive tradition common throughout Latin America involves the presentation of milagros to a holy image as an act of supplication or thanksgiving. These are small charms or talismans made of cast metal in the shape of some object or thing of consternation to the votary. Although Peru also has its own retablo tradition centered in the city of Ayacucho, the retablos produced there are not votive paintings but carved and painted representations of religious scenes and popular settings that are glued into a box for display on a table or shelf.