Virgin Butterworth: Revealing the Madonna Archetypes All Around Us
Making this for Pancakes and Booze shows this fall in Austin, San Antonio, and Houston.
Had a short list of virgins I wanted to do anyway. This was one of them. The showed vaulted this vague nugget of a concept to the front of the line.
So I found a picture of an old bottle of Mrs. Butterworth, changed her pose, adjusted the label and started surrounding her with religious tropes in the form of breakfast related imagery. The only think I had in mind was the bottle. Chance with Google image searches and random associations come together to create this comp that I now need to paint.
Update: above you see the latest version. Here is the earlier one. Luckily I realized that Mrs. Butterworth wasn’t virginal enough. I didn’t want to make her look like a Mary, but she did need to look more saintly than this:
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