We lived on Hall Street, across from East High for twenty seven years. In 1998 I began work on Passion Play, a version of the Stations of the Cross. I pictured Christ being sentenced at East High and then working his way down East Main to the Liberty Pole where he would be crucified. I collected source material including one roll of slide film, shots of locations on East Main, with the intention of doing fourteen paintings but never got to that stage.
I showed the prints at the Bug Jar during Lent 1998 and I entered them in the 1999 Rochester Finger Lakes exhibition and they won both The Averill Council of the Memorial Art Gallery Award and the Harris Popular Vote Award.
I rode my bike downtown everyday and got very familiar with these places. So many things have changed since then.
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