stampitas

everybody had to take art classes in don bosco but not everyone got assigned to recreate stampitas (or holy cards) as posters. in 4th grade i learned the grid enlarging technique from my brother dodi and since then i've been usually tasked to do the scaled up posters of stampitas. from these 'assignments'  a collection of sorts grew. and also whenever you participate in any oratorical blah you get these stampitas as well. yup i also oratoricaled myself quite a lot so i got a lot of them stampitas. anyway, decades later as a project for my post grad in surrey institute of art and design i deconstructed these stampitas for my iconography design concentration. catholic kitsch for atheistically-inclined brits but it resonated with the irish. they're like religious kanji to anyone who wishes religious instruction but were not educated properly with scripture. but it worked almost like propaganda because they are small and can be handed out like leaflets. 

i think i sent these to an exhibit somewhere north. i have tons of work like these. will try to dig them up.