Putti, cherubs, and angels have been an enduring symbol throughout the canon of Western art. They’ve been used in a multitude of ways from Ancient Greece, to early religious imagery in the Abrahamic faiths, to the Renaissance, all the way up to the ornate decorative cherubs in my studio. But, if angels are meant to be the embodiment of innocence, love, and hope, or the representation of souls in heaven, why are they almost always male, and exclusively depicted as white?