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Embarking
on a visual dialogue as a journey toward personal healing has been
an integral part of Mantor's layered, artistic images. She was particularly
inspired during trips to Mexico where she discovered the tiny, silver
Milagro medals pinned to images of Christ or to images
of Saints on display in churches and used to promote self-healing
or in testimony to the miracle of an actual healing. Milagros
are known in Spanish-speaking and European countries as "Little
Miracles" and are little metal shapes which depict a hurt body
part, a broken object or an ailing animal, as healing meditations
directed toward the injured entity. Mantor creates sculpted and
painted Milagros which are "my created visualizaitons
of pain and hurt and are designed to send a positive message which
may promote healing of the self and illustrate the earth's interconnected
wholeness." |
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