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She is God’s chosen one to be the Mother of Christ and of the world.
Beneath those robes is a pregnancy coming to an end. There is a woman’s acceptance toward a future of salvation that involves sacrifice and pain.
There is the boundless love for a son who will be born and bring to earth the greatest existential revolution ever conceived.
I wanted to render a serene face, an instant of quiet abandonment, with hands supporting and enveloping a divine fruit.
A woman full of Grace.