A project for Palm Sunday
A couple of weeks ago our senior teenage group listened to a poem ‘When Jesus came to Birmingham’. Following on from that, we asked them where they thought Jesus might go if he came to Teddington. We then took the small wooden figure of Jesus which you see below, and photographed him in all those places. The list was not edited at all, and the photographic tour led to some interesting conversations:
- With the manager of the charity shop.
- With staff at Tearfund, who saw the photo on Twitter and wished they had been aware of his visit.
- With the barista at Starbucks, who wondered whether I wanted him in the photo?
- With the secretary of the newly rebuilt secondary school, who took me on a tour of the £35million facility to find the best place for our small wooden figure.
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
Another interesting result was a conversation on Twitter which led me to the work of Si Smith and his ‘stations of the resurrection’ You can see one of his arresting images below, and order his astonishing collection here. In an interview with him last week he said: making the characters contemporary forced me to look at them more empathetically too -so it’s not a story about ‘them’, it’s a story about ‘us’.
Emmaus Road…[CLICK for full size image]