path to the highest altar

path to the highest altar

2025

pastel, oil pastel and coloured pencil on paper

50 × 70 cm

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Every 15 May, the Virgin of the Incarnation is carried on a platform through the countryside to her altar. The villagers accompany the statue on a pilgrimage, stretching out the day so that it will never end, whilst the sun travels across the sky beside them, and in the end everything falls asleep.