This is an example of the kinds of things we're going to be moving from Holy Moly to St Nicholas. It's one of the Stations of the Cross that was made by one of our parishioners, and I think it represents Jesus falling the first time on the long walk to Calvary.

If you look closely, you can see two honkin' big wood screws going right up His robe. Also, it's really battered and like all the rest, really dusty and cobwebby. The ladies from the Altar Guild no longer dust these, because they regularly got pulled from the wall and broken because their dusters, or the silk scarves used to cover them in Holy Week would catch on them.

It's about the size of a large framed picture, and the open frame is made from very rustic, splintery wood. I'm not sure what the figures are modeled from, but I suspect all Stations were made from discarded or recycled building materials from when the church was built, or perhaps the parishioner was in construction.

It's definitely not my favorite. I purposely took the photo under moody, low-light conditions because flash just throws all the unfortunate detail into stark relief. It's not bad-looking now, and has a definite feeling of the agony it's meant to convey, but it's pretty primitive when seen close up under strong light.

I guess you'd call these an example of outsider art.

Via: Flickr Title: Station: Falling the First Time By: GinnyRED57
Originally uploaded: 13 Dec '06, 9.59pm CST PST