The Village Art Coalition: Wow, first post.

Well, I must say that I am stoked and honored to be the first one posting on this blog. Hopefully this post will kind of be a catalyst to get others to start posting, start showing work, or at least join the discussion.

Anyhow, I'll kick this thing off with a piece that Ciara and I just finished. This was a really fun piece, and it was great collaborating with my wife. We did it for an event we are having at our church this weekend, Stations of the Cross. It's taking the old Catholic / Lutheran liturgy of the celebration of Christ's final days and using it as a meditative device to really get people to connect with the Easter story in a non-traditional-American way.

Anyhow, the station we chose is "Jesus is Sentenced to Death", and it centers around the part of the story where Pontius Pilate asks the people who should be getting the death penalty, and they shout "CRUCIFY HIM!" Pilate then (literally) washes his hands of the decision, and puts it on the people, who gladly take the blame. This is all about us being the ones who crucify Jesus, and also being the ones asking for mercy for doing the same. The water is also showing how often we "wash our hands" of it all, putting on others the very thing we are guilty of.