Terrie Mangat

Terrie Mangat: "I'm so excited that I'm finishing the commission. The subject matter is really simple. They just wanted a picture; they wanted an apparition of Mary. They other piece they wanted the portraits of the priests in it. Then the last piece they wanted, they wanted had to do with the school children

"And I kept trying to figure out how I would pull this triptych together. A triptych for a church. The other day I was talking to somebody about when we were little. My neighbor, her mother was a seamstress, and she used to make my prom dresses and stuff, but when we were like 12 or 13, or 11 or somethin', I used to go over there and Jeannie would get out those Vogue books and we would cut out the dresses we liked and then we would cut the heads off and then we would take the heads and pin them onto the top of the dresses. The way I'm doing Jesus and Mary taskin' their heads around on the plane reminds me of those paper cut out dolls..."