You are welcome to view the exhibition in any order.
Kristin
Anderson
Celtic Petal Cross
Gurdon
Brewster
Lord
of the Dance
Victor
Challenor
Icon Processional
Cross
Barbara
Desrosiers
Mysterium
Fabrication
Thomas
Faulkner
Roadkill
"There Is No Contradiction..."
Colleen
Meacham
Expectations
Margaret
Parker
Christ
Takes Up
the Cross
Christine
Parson
Crucifixion
Lucretia
Robbins
Tau
Cross/Grasses
Anne
Wetzel
The
Cross
Artists' Bios and Contact Information
Termination
Thomas
Faulkner
mixed media
20' high x 12' x 12'
1981
"Termination" was commissioned for Good Friday, 1981, and installed in the chancel of Christ and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in New York City. Its central object is a contemporary crucifix: Jesus's body wrapped in thick black plastic sheeting and chained into a green institutional wheelchair. This central element is hung from an overhead beam by a chain hoist and the body is illuminated by flourescent lights mounted on each of four corner posts. The crucifix is viewed through windows set into the frame representing each viewer's subjective vantage point. This piece was the focal point for a chancel drama and for meditation throughout the day.
The Crucifixion is pure horror, connecting through the centuries to the human history of terror and suffering. We stare at images of intentional violence with an embarrassing compulsion: Can people be that cruel? Could that happen to us? Could we do that to others? Good Friday calls us to see ourselves as both victim and victimizer, identifying with Jesus' suffering and with the all-too human cruelty of his persecutors.
