Postcards from the Edge

This large, graffiti-like work was done for the high school ministry and thus its visual appeal to the stark, Gothic look favored by youth culture today. 

The concept for the construction of the piece utilizes fetishistic activity from childhood—placing reminder cards, photos, homework papers and children’s drawings on the refrigerator door, creating a collage of “the everyday.” Overlaying the delicacy of the collaged elements are strong graphic representations of what artists have traditionally called “the objects of the Passion.”  This strong visual contrast parallels and emphasizes the contrast between our “everyday” and that momentous day when Christ died for us on the Cross.

From close up the viewer gets distracted examining the small slips of paper and photos that document a family’s daily preoccupations.  Only backing up does one lose sight of the everyday and gains enough perspective to see the Cross.