L’Ultima Cena
mixed media on panel (paper/text/wax/nail)
74cm x 65cm (including frame)
August 2011
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The drawing is the product of a meditation on the biblical ‘Last Supper’ text (Luke Ch. 22), seen as a metaphor for the Christian narrative: Bread–Wine–Body–Blood–Betrayal–Death–Resurrection–Transfiguration–Ascension. It also embraces some psychological & archetypal ideas associated with change and transformation. As a pictorial representation of a conceptual and linear narrative the drawing has much in common with the tradition of religious iconography. It also makes reference to the reliquary object as a symbolic or expressive device.
