STATION TWO Jesus Takes Up His Cross Assemblage By Jerry Di Falco

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Medium:

Assemblage

Size - (USA):

10 W x 20 H x 1 D (inches)

Size - (metric):

25.4 W x 50.8 H x 2.5 D (centimeters)

Theme:

Christian

Edition:

14

Artwork ID:

381902

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Artwork Description:

Artwork Description THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS, from The Permanent Collection of Liturgical Art at THE PHILADELPHIA EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL, 38th and Ludlow Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. WHAT ARE THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS These fourteen artworks, or stations, 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 TWO, entitled, CHRIST TAKES UP HIS CROSS. from the Permanent Collection of Liturgical Art, THE PHILADELPHIA EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL in 38th Ludlow Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. NOTE This is a mixed media, wall assemblage executed on stretched canvas. In this NARRATIVE, Christ begins His physical walk while carrying His cross through the streets of Jerusalem to the place of His crucifixion. This mixed media canvas work contains five of the same digital photographs placed in a cross-like format. I obtained the image that is repeated five times in this work at the Sacred Heart Church in Camden, New Jersey. I photographed the SECEON STATION OF THE CROSS that hangs here and digitalized the work to balance the dark purples and golds, colors that represented royalty in the Ancient Roman Empire. I constructed the cross in the work from two pieces of broken seal bone. The violent texturing and sharp line design balance the cross and photographs. The MEDIA includes seal bones found in Nova Scotia, gold filled sculpting wire, clear acrylic polymers, acrylic paint, photographs, modeling paste, dried root of rue and, stretched canvas over kiln dried pine wood.

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