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The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you may have to
scroll down a bit to find the exact
part...).
My intentions
We went to the Tate Modern over the half term break and visited Doris Salcedo's crack. I was quite worried about grafting a christian message on to something that is meant to be vague, but surely the cross of Christ is all about this kind of thing? The Ephesians text in chapter 2 talks about how the gospel brings down ancient barriers between political and social differences as cultures are finally reconciled to God through Christ's death.
Style notes
I played about with a more painterly feel, but couldn't get the cross to look like blood. I also bust a gut that week doing two big commissions and decided to cut my losses and go for simple shading.
Other
There is an allusion here to the chap who does sculptures using blood transfusions, and I also wanted to have some fun with the extremely jargonistic 'WWJD' bracelets which lots of teenager christians wear. Personally I think you should be known by how you live and not this weird trinket-culture, but there you go...
My intentions
We went to the Tate Modern over the half term break and visited Doris Salcedo's crack. I was quite worried about grafting a christian message on to something that is meant to be vague, but surely the cross of Christ is all about this kind of thing? The Ephesians text in chapter 2 talks about how the gospel brings down ancient barriers between political and social differences as cultures are finally reconciled to God through Christ's death.
Style notes
I played about with a more painterly feel, but couldn't get the cross to look like blood. I also bust a gut that week doing two big commissions and decided to cut my losses and go for simple shading.
Other
There is an allusion here to the chap who does sculptures using blood transfusions, and I also wanted to have some fun with the extremely jargonistic 'WWJD' bracelets which lots of teenager christians wear. Personally I think you should be known by how you live and not this weird trinket-culture, but there you go...