Vinegar Face: Francis Blessed “His Own Heart”
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The sculpture reportedly depicts Augsburg's Our Lady Untier of Knots. Schmalz aptly calls his sour-faced, androgynous statue with a menacing frown “a portrait of Francis' heart.”
MilesChristi.Blogspot.com is reminded of Pachamama rather than Our Lady. Moreover, the statue doesn’t crush the serpent’s head but only steps on its tail, leaving it free to act. The angels flanking the figure are one male and one female suggesting a unity of opposites.
Francis blessed the sculpture at Lake Sainte Anne. In 2019, Schmalz produced a depiction of migrants for St Peter’s square and a homeless Christ in Toronto.
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