1968 Prison Cell Ex Voto Retablo, Thanks to San Juditas Tadeo (Jude the Apostle) antique naive painting I used a dry q-tip

I used a dry q-tip to get most of the dust off

clicks and pops

including from above so as not to miss the long snake slithering across the middle of the pen

hand-painted pink face

which apparently is quite rare to find still intact

1968 Prison Cell Ex Voto Retablo, Thanks to San Juditas Tadeo (Jude the Apostle) antique naive painting I used a dry q-tipSuch a good one, painted in 1968 by a Melchor Garcia, who depicts his visitation by San Juditas Tadeo (Saint Jude) in his prison cell prior to his release, for which he gives thanks in the text below. (Very roughly: "Thank you for granting freedom. I was arrested for taking money from the lottery ticket account that I had sold. But you well know that I grabbed it to feed my children, because I have not been blessed myself. And today my employer found