I went shopping on Mission St. yesterday for altar pieces.
There are shops that have lots and lots and lots of small ceramic figures Many of them are religious and some are “pretty girl” Victorian and almost all are very sentimental. They are all made in China. After having examined literally hundreds of figures, I found a haloed “Barbie” faced Christ child in a red robe. In a Latin craft shop that I like a lot, I found printed “Virgen de Guadalupe”
I also saw a great sheep but it only came with a set. So now there’s a sheep on my wanted list.
silk and dried roses
a fat woman porcelain sculpture in period black lingerie
three cherubs that I bought in a Xmas-carol-filled market in Kyoto in 2002
a tile of three fat women playing cards in their underwear
a small toy giraffe
a photograph of my god-daughter
a small “ground bloom flowers” firework
a 1950s gold necklace with a large gold crown at the bottom
two Slavic or Russian-style icons of the Madonna
an antique faceted glass decanter top that was my grandmother’s
a picture of Max from Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are
a business card from a Finnish sex research scholar that uses a fragment of one of my pictures as background
a nude postcard photograph of my nephew from a performance announcement
a fat woman pin given to me by a fabulous feminist nun in San Antonio.
I’m going Altar shopping tomorrow – watch this space.