Crucifixion presents a radical reinterpretation of traditional religious imagery, filtered through the lens of surrealism and psychological symbolism. Viewed from an impossible, vertiginous angle, the composition fractures the familiar into something both unsettling and sublime. The swollen, distorted torso of Christ dominates the frame, rendered with both anatomical precision and deliberate grotesquerie. Barbed tendrils — thorns or nerves — coil across the flesh, emphasizing the fusion of bodily suffering with mental torment.
Beneath this contorted figure lies a serene, swaddled form — representing Mary, or the universal witness to human suffering — casting a delicate contrast to the brutal geometry of the crosses. The shadow of the crucifix becomes another cross entirely, skewed and fragmented, symbolizing the distortion of faith under the weight of violence and spectacle.
Painted in homage to Salvador Dalí’s Christ of Saint John of the Cross, this work explores not only martyrdom, but the surreal elasticity of pain, perception, and transcendence.
In this piece, religious iconography breaks free from convention, becoming not a static symbol but an active psychological event.
1981
Oil on Linen
36" x 40"
Available $5,400
Prints available upon request
Oil on Linen
36" x 40"
Available $5,400
Prints available upon request
