The pencil sketches on the following pages were drawn by a young, Seattle artist, Cody Harrington. Cody, age 22, was commissioned to paint the fourteen Stations of the Cross to hang in the archways in our new building. It was decided that the pencil sketches submitted as design concepts were so magnificent in their presentation that paintings would be too overpowering.
The images you are about to see represent Cody's interpretation of the 2004 film, The Passion of the Christ. The adaptation from this genre brings a unique sense of motion to the Stations of the Cross, creating, if you will, the illusion that you are there. From these images, we are able to see the reaction on the faces of the people in the crowd, the cruelty of the guards, the sorrow of the women and the acceptance of Christ.
Cody attended Stivers School of the Arts in Dayton, Ohio and continued his education at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. This is his first of many professional commissions.
