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Gallery of SCULPTURE by Sybil Archibald
All things in this world are mirrors which reflect, however imperfectly, the Divine.
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Altars
These altars began as a spontaneous installation to explore a traditional face of the Goddess: The Virgin Mary. Some of them were built by digging into the earth to find the clay layer to sculpt from, some with plaster.  The beads, money, candles etc. are offerings left by people passing by.

   
Faces of the Goddess (made from clay layer below altar)
center: St. Ann, Mary & Jesus, right: Hildegard of Bingen, left: Mary Magdalene(as wild woman)
 

Madonna della Parto (pregnant virgin)

     
Archangel Gabriel & Madonna (plaster)

 
Annunciation Mary

 
Mary of Shelter with Madonna & Archangel Gabriel

 
The Stigmata of St. Francis (his feet with aloe)
represent how the insults, injuries & wounds of our lives can be healing. In the stigmata are the chaos & pain that are often necessary for us to enter into for healing and transcendence. In St. Francis' life, the power of his wounds gave him the power to begin a major transformation in the Catholic Church.

Some Early Sculpture

All images copyright Sybil Archibald