Friday, April 3, 2009

Peek-A-Boo Jesus

One aspect of street art that I like is the varying reactions of passersby. Some responses to this particular installation are quite interesting and probably not what the artist anticipated.

From South Coast Today (Mass)...

Tears welled up in Angela Sampaio's eyes as she beheld the Lund's Corner Jesus through her car windshield Wednesday.

"I am really, really, really moved by this," she said.

She had plenty of company there in the parking lot of Premier Video, where the slightly larger-than-life depiction of the Saviour appeared on the wall sometime last weekend.

This unlikely place has become a small shrine.

Christ's enigmatic gesture — he is holding his hands over his eyes — stirred many of those into what was a fairly unanimous interpretation: that Christ had to close his eyes to the world today.

"His heart is bleeding," Sampaio said. "Things are so bad that he cannot take it anymore. He can't bear to see what's going on."

A middle-aged couple in their car didn't get out, but rolled down the window enough for the man to say, "I don't know what to make of it."

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