Wood/Steel Crucifix - 8' Tall x 5' Wide x 3' Deep

The sculpture below is constructed of a steel core with redwood limbs and accents.  It was crafted over a period of 6 months using mostly scraps of metal and wood.  Our Christ is a broken figure that embodies the abuse that Christ suffered on his journey to the cross.  

The cross is made of pine with a carved and painted relief of vine.  A tau cross was chosen for its symbolism.    In Hebrew it is the last letter of the alphabet and represents the means by which Christ ended the death sentence of the Old Adam with his sacrifice.  This type of cross is also associated with Saint Francis of Assisi who saw it used when serving lepers to protect against skin diseases and the plague.   This type of cross came to represent service to the lowly and outcast.

It is approximately  5' 6" and has been displayed at Churches and Schools during Good Friday services.  

John 1:1-14 Pastel - 50' wide x 6' tall x 2" deep

Christian Parr and Ryan Metlen at work installing the panels.  Panels consist of hollow-core doors with a base layer of paint and grout (to create tooth), and then a thick layer of pastels (Nupastels).  The result was a portable "sidewalk chalk drawing."  Every three doors represent a single element from the first fourteen verses of chapter 1 of the Gospel of John.  They were presented one at a time before the congregation on for each of the four Sundays in Advent (the church season approaching Christmas). Sermons were centered around these passages, and the artwork was referenced.  The end product was over 50' long.

^{JOHN 1:1-14 (NIV)}

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²He was with God in the beginning.

    ³Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ⁴In him was life, and that life was the light of men. ⁵The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood^[a] it.

⁶There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. ⁷He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. ⁸He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. ⁹The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.^[b]

 

¹⁰He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. ¹¹He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. ¹²Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— ¹³children born not of natural descent,^[c] nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

¹⁴The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,^[d] who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.