Consuelo Jimenez Underwood American, b. 1949

“The father-and-son reference in the title indicates the Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in Catholic tradition, in which divinity is conceived as a male. Jimenez Underwood’s wicked sense of humor fuels her iconographic synthesis of these figures into specific hats worn by men. She represents the “Father” with a cowboy hat, its exterior shape formed by a repeated chain stitch overlaid upon a woven ground that contains an additional raised depiction of the border intertwined with barbed wire. The artist follows the Christian hierarchy by placing the cowboy hat in the upper register and a baseball cap, its form again outlined with a chain stitch and placed on top of a raised woven border, in the register to stand for “Son.” The Holy Spirit, because “He” is ghostly, appears without form in the lower register, indicated with a section of open work weaving using shiny metallic and thicker cotton thread in various muted greens, blues, and lavenders. The artist interrogates and questions the construction of masculinity, the association of maleness with divinity, and the erasure of women and femaleness from positions of power and authority in the imagination of organized religions” Laura E. Perez, "Introduction," Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision, Duke University Press, 2022.