Madonna Statue Needs a Hand
Updated: Oct 10
Mother
When Fr. Simon brought this statue to us for repair, it came with lots of "extras"...
"Extra" layers of paint, "extra" dust, and "extra" beads.
The beads were mostly fragments of costume jewellery; the centre of the crown was filled with an abundance of silver "pearls" nesting in its centre. One bead was decorated with the word "Mother" which was touching to find.
The hand which held a sceptre was missing.
To ensure a new hand matched perfectly to the original, I sculpted a replacement in clay to match the existing one.
We cast from this a replica hand in plaster, and then attached it to the statue. I also set a small hooked device into the palm of the hand to accommodate some rosary beads.
This was to prevent any occurance of the hand being snapped at the wrist, due to any possible tugging on said rosary beads.
As work progressed, Fr. C decided the statue should hold a rosary rather than a sceptre, as it would installed in a new rosary chapel he was decorating. I affixed a small loop into the hand to support a rosary, so that it would not damage the new hand.
Madonna statue customisation to represent Our lady of the Rosary
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