Our Lady of the Harbor, is probably my favorite Madonna. Circa 1995, the sources, as are those for most of the series, are primarily from a shoe box of vintage postcards I found in an abandoned farmhouse in the Ozarks back in my hippie period in the early 70's. All of the cards were addressed to the same woman and came from places as far away as India and China. A sailor nephew, I think, as well as other family members. The oldest postmarks precede the First World War, and the correspondence ends during the Eisenhower era. The abstract shapes are meant to suggest Medieval parchments and tanned animal hides.