A visit for our group presentation : Miracles & Charms

Because we must to do a group presentation, so we decided to go to Welcome Collection and visited the exhibition: Miracles & Charms.
Infinitas Gracias: Mexican Miracle Paintings  is like no exhibition we’ve seen before. It collects together over 100 votive paintings, each showing a desperate situation eased by the intervention of a saint. If, say, you fall off a ladder in Mexico and pray to your saint of choice, you’d be honour-bound upon your recovery to create or commission a votive painting by way of gratitude.

The little mircale paintings which I found to be intriguing and captivating ---each painting was accompanied with the story behind the Votive, the miracle that saved the person. The miracle paintings depict the moment of  disater when an individual asks the saint for help ---there seemed to be a lot of people saved from accidents, and even a few thanking the Saints for saving livestock.

 Another exhibition is Charmed LivesThe second half of the exhibition on Miracles and Charms at Wellcome Collection looks at 400 amulets which have been collated by artist Felicity Powell from Henry Wellcome's collection. Ranging from coins, carved shells, dead animals to elaborate notes, the original collection was started by the folklorist Edward Lovett, which bought the curios from various Londoners, including barrowboys and sailors, before selling them onto Wellcome.