Portfolio of Christ
The "Portfolio of Christ" is a body of work published at Magnolia Press in Oakland, California in 2003. The Portfolio consists of 12 prints, each measuring 8" x 10 7/8" (22 cm. x 27.7 cm), housed in a glossy printed envelope. The edition size of the entire portfolio is 30. Please click on any image for a larger view and click on your browser's back button to get back to this page.
I
suppose that the work does have some visual puns which were intended
(I can't help myself; I just couldn't waste a good one like CheeseisChrist)
but I was also interested in the classical symbolism of vegetables,
fruits and other foods. I find it significant that food is so personal,
much like religion,
and that our most important occasions center around food. Food means
something whether it celebrates a wedding, the signing of a contract,
birth, death, religious holidays or family. The Last Supper was after
all a food occasion with all sorts of connotations. I also find the
symbolism of individual foods, "food for thought"; the pomegranate's
seeds, the age of a fine cheese, the fact that human intervention does
something to milk to create it, the juice of a blood orange, the layers
of leaves in a cabbage or lettuce are symbols in relation to religion
that have special meaning to me. A still-life is not always a still-life.
This body of work helped me work out the problem of the choices involved
in the construction of my own artist's palette.
Last
revised June 1, 2003
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