For this one I utilised a style I've been working with for a while now - structuring it as a cluster of small framed prints, and drawing on images from a library of photographs that I've taken over a 15 year period. In fact a couple of the images I used for this piece I also used for the station I did for the Cityside event nine years ago (although that one involved the images being looped on a television set rather than printed and framed).
For the St Luke's event, I used war images photographed off the screen from TV war documentary and news footage. I put the cluster in a slanted / slash shape to reflect the idea of strife and also the forward angle of a person carrying a heavy weight.
This was the most 'obscure' of the three pieces I did, so I included a supporting statement:
When Jesus carried the cross he took on his shoulders one of humankind’s most notorious weapons of execution. Politically, he was carrying the weight of the judgement of the world’s major super-power – the Roman Empire.
Despite Jesus’ actions on the cross, we have continued to devise weapons and tried to conquer each other.
War is where all of humanity’s worst traits come out, so it serves as a fitting metaphor for what was laid on him.
In carrying the cross, Jesus chose to carry our strife, hatred and suffering (past, present and future) and the pain we inflict on each other and inflicted on him.
Here's a mock-up of the piece - each photographic print is 6x4" (click to see it a little larger):
1 comment:
Hi Andrew
I think this works very well. Visually it holds together cohesively. In terms of referencing the Cross the connections are there clearly , yet not too obvious.
Good contextualising of the easter story for a contemporary setting and culture. Great effort!
P&J
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