THE LAST SEVEN
WORDS OF CHRIST

In the spring of 2014Terra Nova Church reached out to myself and Scott Foster about creating a series of devotional work for Holy Week. After receiving a grant from Siena College Scott and I set to work involving a larger community. We worked with students in Scott's fall figure drawing class to create the series below. Our goal was to create work that showed humanity while also keeping gender, race and age ambiguous. The base of each painting is a photograph that I took. Setting up parameters of color and space that helped to dictated the final placement of the figures by Scott and his students.  The final images were then displayed in Terra Nova's gallery space and used to create the devotional guide, found below. 

For Give Them

Today with Me in Paradise

Thirst

Your Son

Finished

        Forsaken Me

Into Your Hands

Resurrection

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Finalize slides created for Terra Nova Church by the design team Iron to Iron