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"Haitian Crucifixion 2000," by Sister Helen David Brancato, via Senior Artists Initiative
Sister Helen David Brancato is part of the Senior Artists Initiative, a wonderful group that exists to "assist senior artists in understanding the need for, and processes involved in, organizing their life's work, and to develop programs that provide recognition for senior artists." In this award-winning mixed-media piece, the artist presents Jesus as a grieving Haitian woman. In an interview, she said the piece was inspired by a news photograph of a Haitian woman "who had just learned that five members of her family were among 400 who perished in a ferry accident. . . . The photo led me to recall things I had seen in Haiti during a visit there in 1989. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. I saw [in it] the ongoing Passion of Christ."
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