Stations of the Street

with Luke Grey

The farm, the room, lost. The pigs, the dogs, the same privilege. Vague, the prat shopped. Thin cracks open love.

The fourteen Stations of the Cross depict the Via Dolorosa (Latin for the‘Painful Way’), a street in the old city of Jerusalem that Jesus is believed to have walked on the way to his crucifixion. The Stations are often hung around the walls of Christian churches, and depending on your location within the church, you are close to some stations while others remain partially hidden. Each has its own life, while together they describe the awkwardness through time of the death itself.

This project, the Stations of the Street, references that work to depict both the life and death of the street. The body of the street is broken into 14 stations - named, but explained in reference to borrowed text. Like the Stations of the Cross, the included text pulls meaning from the image, and vice versa. The collage of image and text defines the station, and its place within the meta- narrative of the street. It is the space between the borrowed images and text as collage that constructs meaning.