Station of the Cross # 1: Christ Before Pontius Pilate Print

NOTE: The original canvas is part of the permanent collection at The Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral; However, the printed image is available from Saatchi. This mixed media artwork is from a series of fourteen stretched canvases entitled, THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS. All of the originals are from The Permanent Collection at THE PHILADELPHIA EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL, which is located next to the campuses of Drexel University and The University of Pennsylvania (38th and Ludlow Streets, just north of Chestnut Street). These originals are not for sale, however prints of them are available through Saatchi On Line. The Dean of the Cathedral, The Rt. Rev. Judith Sullivan, and her clergy and staff sponsor a number of programs to help the local community; moreover, all of the artist’s proceeds from the sales of these prints will support the Episcopal Cathedral Weekly Food Bank, which helps to feed fifty local families. WHAT ARE THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS? These fourteen artworks act as Lenten meditation tools, which depict scenes from the final hours of Christ. They are executed as wall reliefs in plaster or wood, paintings, or sculptures. Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, and Anglican Catholic churches display them all year on their left and right walls. My STATIONS are mixed media wall assemblages executed on stretched, primed canvases. They incorporate many items from nature including bones, seeds, rose stems, mammal skulls, and glazed sugar. No animals were harmed to obtain the bones, which were all found in nature. My works also include castings of objects that I created and photographic images I chanced upon on the streets or in trash dumpsters. Some of these photos were altered by hand or digital means. I also used original photos taken by myself. Pictured here is STATION NUMBER ONE, entitled JESUS IS SENTENCED TO DEATH. In this narrative Pilate questions Jesus, whose name in Aramaic is Yeshua and finds him guiltless of any crimes against the state. At this point in the trial, Christ has already been tortured and mocked by the Roman soldiers and the Hebrew temple guards. Before he appears before Pilate, he has been crowned with a ring of spiked thorns, and severely whipped. His pain is high and his blood loss is heavy. In spite of the innocence of Jesus -- and at the insistence of the Jewish religious leaders in Jerusalem -- Pilate condemns Christ to death by crucifixion. To cleanse himself of any accountability in this act, Pilate orders that water be brought to him for the ceremonious washing of his hands and to purify his guilt. I photographed my own hands, which were covered in latex gloves, for this piece using time-lapse methods. I next repeatedly scanned the text, NEVER ENOUGH WATER, into this image. These words express the idea that no amount of water could ever cleanse the sin of condemning an innocent person. Moreover, the latex gloves symbolize our sanitation of capital punishment in contemporary society. Media for this specific STATION includes The skull and teeth of a young deer, metallic thread, clear acrylic polymers, acrylic paint, digital photographs, acid free paper, and, stretched canvas on wood.

Print:Giclee on Photo Paper

Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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