STATIONS WITH HAIKU
JESUS FALLS A THIRD TIME detail
These stations are textile explorations of the traditional Stations of the Cross, sacramentals used in the Catholic Church. They include references to scripture and church tradition, such as the falls of Jesus which are not recorded in the New Testament.
They are a very personal response.
Each station is 150mm by 100mm.
Image on the front, haiku on the reverse.
They are a very personal response.
Each station is 150mm by 100mm.
Image on the front, haiku on the reverse.
JESUS CELEBRATES THE PASSOVER
JESUS PRAYS IN GETHSEMANE
JESUS IS CONDEMNED
PETER DENIES JESUS
JESUS IS WHIPPED
JESUS TAKES UP HIS CROSS
JESUS FALL THE FIRST TIME
JESUS MEETS HIS MOTHER
SIMON HELPS JESUS
JESUS FALLS THE SECOND TIME
JESUS MEETS THE WOMEN
JESUS FALLS THE THIRD TIME
JESUS IS STRIPPED
JESUS IS CRUCIFIED
JESUS DIES
JESUS IS TAKEN DOWN
JESUS IS BURIED
JESUS IS RISEN
These stations express my frustration at the constraints often put on participation and belief.
This is beautifully expressed in a letter by Carlo Carretto (1910 - 1988), which follows below.
LOVE LETTER TO THE CHURCH
"How much I must criticise you, my church, and yet how much I love you!
You have made me suffer more than anyone and yet I owe to you more than to anyone.
I should like to see you destroyed and yet I need your presence.
You have given me much scandal and yet you alone have made me understand holiness.
Never in this world have I seen anything more compromised, more false,
yet never have I touched anything more pure, more generous or more beautiful.
Countless times I have felt like slamming the door of my soul in your face -
and yet, every night, I have prayed that I might die in your sure arms!
No, I cannot be free of you,
for I am one with you, even if not completely you.
Then to where would I go?
To build another church?
But I could not build one without the same defects, for they are my defects.
And again, if I were to build another church, it would be my church, not Christ's church.
No, I am old enough, I know better.";
This is beautifully expressed in a letter by Carlo Carretto (1910 - 1988), which follows below.
LOVE LETTER TO THE CHURCH
"How much I must criticise you, my church, and yet how much I love you!
You have made me suffer more than anyone and yet I owe to you more than to anyone.
I should like to see you destroyed and yet I need your presence.
You have given me much scandal and yet you alone have made me understand holiness.
Never in this world have I seen anything more compromised, more false,
yet never have I touched anything more pure, more generous or more beautiful.
Countless times I have felt like slamming the door of my soul in your face -
and yet, every night, I have prayed that I might die in your sure arms!
No, I cannot be free of you,
for I am one with you, even if not completely you.
Then to where would I go?
To build another church?
But I could not build one without the same defects, for they are my defects.
And again, if I were to build another church, it would be my church, not Christ's church.
No, I am old enough, I know better.";
