Black Madonna/Para mi Tata is a truncated female figure without head or upper torso, seated on a heavy wooden rocker, a child's memory of a powerful female presence, both sustaining and frightful.

In all of these works unexpected transformations bring the psychic and emotional forces that animate the sculpture onto an equal plane of physicality with the depiction of the figure itself. The emphasis on making the unseen visible invokes the world of religious art from various traditions.

-Robert Taplin from Strong Spirits catalog, 1997,
Fine Arts Center Gallery Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio

Black Madonna/Para MI Tata