Original Oil Painting
© Stevon Lucero

Size: 40x50
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Price: NFS
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Description: My intent in this piece was to symbolically depict that moment in Christian theology when Jesus absorbed the sins of the workd. His body is contorted and deformed by all the sins, desires, prayers, and brutalaties that mankind would inflict upon him and upon each other in his name.

The cross emerges from a sea of blood. Jesus is nailed to a cross composed of the universe while the three nails themselves represent the trinity and are enlarged to emphisize the pain. This painting pays homage to that moment when Jesus comforted himself by reciting the twenty-second psalm which begins, "Oh Father, oh Father, Why has thou forsaken me..."

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