This piece is from the spring of '09. Our assignment was to do a collage, and I have a slight obsession with crossword puzzles, so I wanted to depict something with crossword. The idea to have it be Jesus was influenced by two things: first, I felt like I was keeping in the tradition of classic artists by doing something religious, and second, I thought a crossword of Jesus in a newspaper would reference how Jesus has a tendency to "appear" in everyday settings. This was actually very fun to make despite how time consuming it was. I wanted to keep all the little crossword numbers right-side-up, so I'd cut out as big of shapes of white squares as I could and then piece them together. It was kind of like paper Tetris. The black parts are the black squares in crosswords and any large patches of black I could find in newspapers. I painted a black border in acrylic to clean it up, but now I feel like the painted on border makes it feel kinda childish , so I'd probably lose it if I were to hang it.
Mixed Media
