Low relief, hand carved figure of a crucified Jesus in a loin cloth. To be placed indoors only, unless under cover and regularly waxed. Far from being anti church, this sculpture is a cry to wake people up to the terrible suffering and cruelty there is in the world. Day after day the radio in my workshop spews out atrocities until they roll off the tongue like rhyming couplets and my heart weighs heavy with the hearing of them.
The very notion that human beings could actually nail a living man to a cross is proof of OUR abhorrent cruelty. Should this sad icon be at the head of the Christian church which supposedly preaches love and kindness to all?
He has a thorny crown made from scrap – reinforcing material for concrete – a painted loin cloth, and the background is painted green. The green signifies my wish to lay him down to rest in the grass, whilst being an excellent complement to the colour of the wood.