The pieces in my collection by New Mexican Artist Michael Vargas are strongly influenced by the penitential traditions of the Hispanos of the American Southwest, associated with lay communities, known as moradas, which re-enact scenes from the Passion of Christ in the days before Easter. I've just posted three new prints of this type on the Vargas profile page in the Sacred Artists section, appropriate to the Lenten Season. You can find an etching and a monotype, the sixth and seventh in a series of images of Our Father, Jesus the Nazarene, recalling the wooden sculptures of the suffering Christ on the way to Golgotha, carried in the Holy Week penitential processions. There is also a new monotype of the Crucifixion of Christ in the expressively, elongated form, which Vargas has been using in his latest works. (John Kohan)