"It is done"

2005-2006

118 x 179 cm

"Father, into your hands I commit my spirit."

Jesus bends his head and breathes his last.

Master craftsmenship in mixed media technique on wood in combination and incorporation with antic wood, stones from the river Moell and hand-wrought nails.

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Golgotha = which means The Place of the Skull, Calvary

 Frame:

Dry wood as a symbol of frailty and weakness (sinners)

 Portrayal of Jesus on the cross:

As a symbol of green wood, albeit marked by the agony of Christ's suffering

Quotation: Luke 23.28

"Do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children.

For the time will come when you will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!"' Then they will say to the mountains,

'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!'

For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

 Burning land:

As a symbol for the pain and the end of his life on earth.

Creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth.

Quotation: "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"

Which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

Nor will you let your Holy One see decay.

You have made known to me the path of life. (Psalm 16)

Lake:

As the cradle and origins of all life.

Water as the symbol of purity.

Light as the symbol of redemption or enlightenment and eternal life.