The pencil sketches on the following pages were drawn by
a young, Seattle artist, Cody Harrington. Cody, age 22,
was commissioned to paint the fourteen Stations of the Cross
to hang in the archways in our new
building. It was decided that the pencil sketches submitted
as design concepts were so magnificent in their presentation
that paintings would be too overpowering.
The images you are about to see represent Cody's interpretation
of the 2004 film, The Passion of the Christ. The
adaptation from this genre brings a unique sense of motion
to the Stations of the Cross, creating, if you will, the
illusion that you are there. From these images, we are able
to see the reaction on the faces of the people in the crowd,
the cruelty of the guards, the sorrow of the women and the
acceptance of Christ.
Cody attended Stivers School of the Arts in Dayton, Ohio
and continued his education at the School of Visual Arts
in Manhattan. This is his first of many professional commissions.
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