(We Know Not What To Do)
12 x 18"
watercolor
Marius Black
2004
Another artwork I made for composition class on watercolor. This time it's a three figure composition. And have I told you I like depicting Christ? Well it might because my parents raised me as a God fearing Catholic and sent me to a private Catholic school so maybe that's why it's ingrained in me. But maybe it's something deeper.
As I was doing this there was really none of that going through my mind, I just am fascinated with the crucifixion, probably as fascinated as Alex was in Clockwork Orange, but that's not it either. I only saw that film afterwards and did not see it that way at all. Probably my hate from all the hypocrite priests and how they defile the church.
No, not that at all. It's actually just me interpreting what probably Jesus Christ has gone through when he was being crucified, and to witness that and see in him that he is just a man enduring all that pain, then we should be grateful of the lessons he was teaching us. Yes he is a God, but he is also a man too, get his stomach aches when he's hungry, his body weakened when tired. His skin bleeds when cut. But his soul, his soul is of a God. And that it can be contained in a man's body and therefore we can reach this as well, for that is why he came down here for. for us to see how it is possible for a man to ascend in heaven. For us to witness that there is a place beyond what we see here now. For there to be a proof that pain and suffering has a purpose.
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