An
Exhibition for the Season of Lent 2004
TENTH
STATION
JESUS
IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS
A
PHOTOGRAPH FRONTED WITH CRISP WHITE SHIRTS
DISPLAYING BULLET HOLES AND
FLAGS
The
Rev. Thomas Faulkner, Artist
June
25/26, 1876. On a bluff above the Little Bighorn River East of
what is now Crow Agency, a battle was fought between members
of the US 7th Cavalry under General George Custer and a large
contingent of Northern Plains Indians (Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho).
Custer and all his men were killed by superior indian forces.
We are today numbed by photographs of men and women, young
and old, civilian and military, terrorist and peacekeeper, from every
religious and ethnic group, lying dead or wounded with their garments
partially or totally ripped from their bodies. Before being nailed to the
cross, Jesus was stripped of his garments by the same dark forces of
greed, hatred, fear, violence and oppression operative today.
what is now Crow Agency, a battle was fought between members
of the US 7th Cavalry under General George Custer and a large
contingent of Northern Plains Indians (Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho).
Custer and all his men were killed by superior indian forces.
We are today numbed by photographs of men and women, young
and old, civilian and military, terrorist and peacekeeper, from every
religious and ethnic group, lying dead or wounded with their garments
partially or totally ripped from their bodies. Before being nailed to the
cross, Jesus was stripped of his garments by the same dark forces of
greed, hatred, fear, violence and oppression operative today.
