We return to the American Southwest for this week's new Franciscan-themed image from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection, a shadow box by New Mexican Saint-maker Johnny Salas, showing the Saint from Assisi embracing the Crucified Christ. The Albuquerque-based artisan uses this popular folk art form from South of the Border to create highly decorated images, almost 3-D-like in appearance, which combine bits and bobs of religious kitsch in eye-catching ways. This week's new addition to the image gallery of the Salas profile page in the Sacred Artists section is no exception. Salas has added sequins, gilded-edging, and tear-like drops of glue to a cheap reproduction of Spanish Baroque Artist Bartolome Esteban Murillo's famous painting of St. Francis at the Crucifixion and set it in a deep frame bordered by strips of gold lame, crimson piping and artificial roses. We view this dramatic image like theater-goers peeping through an elaborate proscenium.(John Kohan)