SAINT AGATHA
Single colour risograph print in green on 120gsm paper. Slightly under A3.
SAINT AGATHA - the patron saint of breast cancer patients, bakers, bell-founders and wet nurses. Saint Agatha of Sicily was an early Christian martyred during the Decian persecution by a roman prefect whose advances she rejected. The most famous of her horrific tortures was the excision of her breasts, and so she is often depicted presenting them on a silver platter - although the medieval versions can be slightly gorier, involving pincers and crucifixes and such things. There is even a traditional Sicilian sweet named after her breasts.
I personally think that she works very nicely as the patron saint of all those who undergo mastectomies, for whatever reason. Want a bit of camped up divine intercession? Want an unorthodox icon? Not too weirded out by the visual connection between severed breasts and retro jellies that I am apparently inappropriately making here?
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