Mixed-media sculpture. Nine-inch tall wooden board covered with canvas with printed image of chicken standing on a scale--canvas cut, wrapped and stapled to wood. Mounted on 5.5-inch x 5.5-inch x 1.5-inch wooden base stained with juice from walnut shells. Chicken adorned with 12 different laminated New Fluxus Symbols hung on front of chicken with small metal screw eyes.
side view
Side view of twelve New Fluxus Symbols printed on paper, laminated and dangling from screw eyes on front of Saint Chicken image.
rear view
Canvas wrapped and stapled to back of wooden form. Image printed on canvas is image originally posted to Fluxlist Blog (see below).
This display presented 12 symbols that had appeared in various entries on Fluxlist Blog, then were selected and organized into "New Fluxlist Symbol Set 1B."
overhead view
underside view
A very faint copy of the original image mysteriously appears on the bottom of the base of the statue.
As milagros each of these 12 symbols represents a different petition by the artist to the Chicken Saint for special favors and considerations. The specific petitions are based on the meaning of the symbols, but remain a secret between the artist/petitioner and the Chicken Saint.
For more information about milagros and their use around the world, go here and here.
