Mosaic / tape on mat board
(Dimensions: 11"x14")
I spent the season of Lent working on this Good Friday piece. Working on this image over the 3 weeks leading up to Good Friday helped remind me of Jesus' experience of time. Not only did the crucifixion last for hours, but in the days and weeks leading up to his death, Jesus knew where his journey would take him. To have that event looming nearer with every passing hour must have brought waves of intense emotion and struggle. In this image I wanted to capture Christ's physical and emotional pain, the separation from his Father, the loneliness of his experience, and maybe even the horror at the anticipation of his time in hell. God, who was outside of time, entered the human experience and endured the agony of the cross and separation from his Father for the joy of bringing mankind into right relationship with him. On the cross Jesus endured pain and suffering for a time, but it has been finished!
The passage that I kept coming back to was 1 Peter 2:22-24, which says:
22 “He committed no sin,
and no deceit was found in his mouth.”
23 When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. 24 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
