In my neighborhood, as kids, we traded baseball cards, comic books and prayer cards of the patron saints. Not only did we know Carl Yastrzemski's batting average, but we could also cite saintly statistics like who was beheaded or burned at the stake and when and where this occurred.

"Virgin Mary Blue" has always been my favorite color, but now I call it "Cerulean." Today, even though I can still recite the Memorare by heart and the word "genuflect" can instinctually bring me right to my knees, I am not the same. Idolls tries to reconcile my unwavering devotion as a child to the spiritual cynic that I have become.

Some would say that Idolls is poking fun at sacred cows. Others would say it is a religious trumpet. The answer is somewhere in between.

I leave it to the viewer to decide.

- Paula Tognarelli


 

 


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