Station 9
Transposition, wood, steel, aluminium and cotton. 50 x 300 x 120 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
The essence of Christ is here given the form of a reliquary with metaphoric infill rather than a literal human body. This reliquary is given directional properties, symbolic of the final phase of its journey. Stalled in the last disruption before the climax of that final journey, the Vehicle is slewed perilously across that demarcation zone between left and right. The derisive ‘accessories’ are in the process of falling away from the core structure. Enigmatic and unknowable, the interior space at the front of the three-part reliquary remains untouched, untouchable.
Meditation
I am not sure if I can watch this much longer.
In His pain, I see my pain,
in His falling I feel myself falling,
in His cross … in His cross
I am included.
He carried it for me –
for me, my enemies and my friends.
© Ruth Burgess and Chris Polhill
Eggs and Ashes: Practical & liturgical resources for Lent and Holy Week.
Station Information
- Year: 2016
- Station Number 9
- Jesus Falls the Third Time
- Exhibitor Stuart Elliott
Reading
He endured the suffering that should have been ours,
the pain we should have borne.
All the while we thought that His suffering was punishment sent by God;
but because of our sins He was wounded,
beaten because of the evil we did.
We are healed by the punishment He suffered
made whole by the blows He received.
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