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sculptures
The sculptures are responses to the death of Jesus. These were done in groups within the class, some thinking about the temple where Jesus had been, some of Judas who betrayed and how he felt; some explored the cross, with the other two crosses alongside. Because of their fragility, pictures were taken of them along with the group’s description and these images and descriptions are hung around a group of trees in the garden, with a large cross at the centre. Some of the cross sculptures were used in the midst of one of our Cathcart churches joint easter services on the Wednesday of holy week – see here for details of service.
paintings
The paintings, copies of which lie spread around the garden path, are faces and coins and impressions of what was going on in the temple in Jerusalem, when Jesus came in and turned over the tables where people were ripping off each other over money for sacrifice and where he spoke about prayer. On paper plates we painted angry faces, happy faces, sad faces, made some of them big coins, painted pictures of prayer, of doves.
poems
The acrostic poems which lie as a long cloth across and around a tree, draping to the ground, are responses to the impact of hearing that Jesus is coming to Jerusalem – how would people in Jerusalem be feeling, responding? The Roman authorities, the soldiers? The priests? The people in the streets? What would they be doing when they heard Jesus was coming – fear, anger, excitement? We took some of the words that came up in the discussions and made acrostic poems about the responses.
notes on ‘garden@easter’ 2012
The ‘cathcartgarden project’ is exploring how different groupings locally can make responses to key events in the life of the Christian community – these are intentionally creative art installations, which will seek to open different experiences to these events. The garden@easter event involved the pupils of P6/5 at Merrylee Primary School and their teacher Mrs Embleton, alongside myself & Rev. Wilma Pearson. Thank you to all involved and for those families who made it up to the launch on Wednesday – the kids did a great job and have made our journey through the garden to the church an exciting and colourful one through easter! The installation will be up for about two/three weeks through April 2012.
garden@easter – launch today, 6pm
installation of work around the easter story, with merrylee primary school, cathcart, will be opened up, tonight, 6pm, in the garden at cathcart baptist with refreshments & hot cross buns – all welcome to come along – class p6/5 have worked hard & worked creatively and I am very excited to see it in place! Images will be posted later in the week.
garden@easter
Work is underway with Merrylee Primary School, P6/5 class, on creative art responses to the Easter story. These expressions are going to shape the garden in front of Cathcart Baptist Church, along the entrance path, across Easter. The launch of the installation, which will include poems, painting & sculpture, will take place on Wednesday 4th April in the garden at 6.00pm in the evening, with hot cross buns & refreshments.
Images of the installation & some of the work will be available on this site from next Wednesday, along with background information and thinking. Many thanks to the pupils and the staff at Merrylee Primary School, particularly P6/5 and their teacher Mrs. Embleton, for their enthusiasm, creativity and the joy of being amongst them. Thanks also to Rev. Wilma Pearson, Cathcart Trinity, who prompted the creativity with the quality of her story telling.
