
Mother Teresa
2022
72 x 60”, mixed media photograph and 36,000+ hand-painted Bodhi seeds
Mother Teresa was a nun, missionary, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and canonized a Saint for her humanitarian work. She founded a Roman Catholic congregation of women in 1950, which has grown to more than 5,000 nuns and religious sisters worldwide, dedicated to helping the poorest of the poor. This portrait is constructed using more than 36,000 Bodhi seeds and mala prayer beads, superimposed against a black-and-white photomontage of homeless peoples' signs pleading for help.