This larger than life sized marble angel, mourning over the tomb of a long departed Savannah citizen, has lost the top of one of its wings. The sculpture was intended to express a spiritual idea, however the ravages of weather or vandalism have altered its symbolic meaning. The angel’s wing is now clipped, and its mission seems compromised. Using black and white imaging, I stress both the sadness and the function an angel symbolically brings to its mission.
This angel seems oblivious to the state of its crippled functionality. When I converted this image to black and white, the angel’s eyes mysteriously appear to be either opened and closed, depending upon how I looked at them. The angel could be seen as either symbolically looking upwards for heavenly support, or downwards in grief.