Collect and support freedom of speech! I’ve donated a work from my limited edition “Mother Board” to the National Coalition Against Censorship. To preview and bid, visit http://vugalleries.com/product/kelly-heaton/
Top row: photos of the donated work, “Mother Board (Study 1/2),” 2020.
Bottom row: documentation of my stenciling process
Mother Board makes the irreverent claim that high-tech society has overwritten the Madonna icon, formerly possessed with a sanctimonious authority beyond reproach. In this work on canvas, a digital reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Madonna Litta” (c.1500) is partially obscured by circuit traces rendered in thick acrylic paint. A previously untouchable archetype, the Eurocentric Mother and Child has succumbed to electronic culture, anticolonialism, gender fluidity, and bioengineering.
