Sophie Hacker
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The Covid Cross

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During Holy Week 2020, during the first national Lockdown, Sophie worked on a cross from recycled wood.  The wood comes from an old, discarded palette.  The surface is rough and weathered, and there’s evidence of lots of previous nails, a few of which still remain.  Sophie often uses a symbolic language of colour, with colours having a specific meaning.  She glazed this cross with a range of transparent green and bluish pigments.  These colours stand for the renewal of creation.  She also used a finely ground gold powder, which stands for God’s Glory.

Sophie added representations of the virus.  It’s disturbing to see this ominous, spiky foreign body being absorbed into the cross, but it makes the same point as a story deep in the pages of the Old Testament.  The Israelites were wandering in the wilderness.  They were freed from slavery, but life was really tough.  Along with shortages of basic necessities, they were plagued by poisonous serpents.  But God offered a solution.  he told Moses to make a bronze serpent and lift it high on a pole, so that those who had been bitten could look on it and live.

John 3 v 14 refers to this story, when he talks about the Son of Man being ‘lifted up’

For more information on this work please email Sophie

Copyright © Sophie Hacker 2021
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    • About the Artist
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  • Current Projects
    • Exhibitions and Selected Commissions
  • Church Art
    • All The Saints
    • Water into Wine
    • The Covid Cross
    • Silver
    • Corpus
    • Pentecost Cross
    • Chronicles of Light
    • Festal Copes
    • Venerable Chapel
    • Silk Banners
    • The Cathedral Market Nativity
    • Altar and three frontals
    • Lent Art Project 2021
  • Stained Glass
    • Lockdown Fragments
    • Revealing Glory and Renewing Hope
    • Calling Window
    • Holy Spirit Windows
    • Circular Roof Lantern
    • Baptism Window
  • Sculpture
    • St Oswald
    • Witness
    • Crucifixion Now, Resurrection Now
    • Icons of the Incarnation
    • Corpus
    • Sarum Cross
    • Christus
    • Archive >
      • Cursus
      • Pilgrim
      • Tempest
      • White Stoneware Nativity set
      • Pilgrim Cross
      • Climbing Cross
      • Crown
      • Landscape Form
      • Hospitality
      • Broken Crucifix
      • Landscape Assemblage
      • Mother and Child
  • Painting
    • Untiltled (Delight)
    • Jewelled light
    • Joy of Movement
    • Contemplation of the Father
    • The Exchange
    • Contemplation of the Son by the Son
    • Contemplation of the Star and the Cross
    • Through Him everything was made
    • Contemplation of the Spirit of Joy
    • First Communion of the Virgin
    • Noel
    • Kiss of the Infant Jesus
    • I sleep but my heart wakes
    • Untiltled (Hope)
    • Archive >
      • Quartet 2
      • Triptych
      • South Choir Aisle
      • Landscape 2006
      • Moonscape 2006
      • Original Composition for the Organ
      • Window
      • Interpretation of Rublev's Icon of
      • Joy
      • Quartet 1
      • Shekinah
      • Encounter
      • Autumn Flaming
      • Landscape 1
      • Landscape 2
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