Monday 27 April 2020

SNU. ASU2. This is where my SNU and ASU2 projects begin to physically bridge. This old work used as objects takes me into the story of Jesus' journey to the cross simply because one of the models is Mary and child. If  Jesus' story is used as an allegorical tale then there is not really so much space between my personal history, the Jesus story or anyone else's story. The cross is the life you carry on your back and it is a lighter or heavier burden dependent on those you meet, the way that you came to that cross, and how long you have felt its weight on your shoulders. 
The models are human forms too, and perhaps that is also pertinent. The need to see outside of oneself to understand that our needs do not stand alone, they do not stand alone, and covid19 is giving us chance to see that, to understand that we as people do not stand alone, and we as a species do not stand alone. I have always baulked at the notion that man holds dominion over this earth that supposedly Adam was given in the garden of Eden, i feel that man has abused that gift. Again covid19 is letting us know that man does not have dominion. 
In older paintings of the crucifixion there is often a skull placed at the base of the cross, this is Adams skull and represents the banishment of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden. Jesus' death is meant to assuage the sins of the fathers and thereby allow passage back to the garden of Eden. Is there something we can learn from this whether we are christian or not (i am not). I'd add in here too the suffering of the two women left to grieve, his mother and his companion, their suffering should not be brushed aside. Their grief. Their pain. I wonder if the dead also suffer after death or if it is only the living, i guess i won't know till i die myself.
But here, the point where the SNU and ASU2 meet is with these models, the originals slightly bigger and the 3d models with scaffolding and base left intact. The hold between the two projects and perhaps any two living entities is understanding and compassion. 



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