Station 15

The Resurrection
Corten and mild steel
Image courtesy of the artist

This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the spirit is the one that testify, testifies for the spirit is the truth. There are three that testify: The Spirit and the Water and the Blood, and these three agree. [1 John 5: 6-8]

Jesus’ life and resurrection is one of the central foundations of the Christian faith. Though Jesus’ resurrection is a symbol of hope and salvation for humankind, it also looms with the question - How do we find hope in the face of our mortality and finitude? There is no one universally correct answer to this question – a question that troubles many of us as we attempt to fulfill our lives with what provides us with comfort.

Station 15 - The Resurrection of Christ, is a work born out of a struggle to compose an answer to this question. That maybe, as the Christian faith suggests, we need to put our lives into the hands of the unknown, and let it burn like a flame until it reaches its highest point; until the unknown, decides to extinguish all that we know to be. In the process of contemplating the end of our lives, our present life simultaneously comes to mind. Our lives actively create many facets and paths that fuse into one another. Tamed by the Divine, there is a subliminal quality to the idea of putting one’s faith and life into another’s hands.

Though the work doesn’t directly answer the question of how to find hope, it does manifest some assurance within the bounds that we are humanly capable to understand; that the unknown is what makes it all terrifyingly beautiful.

Biography

Mafrici is a Perth based artist, recently graduated from Edith Cowan University with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) in 2016. Mafrici works in various mediums from printmaking to sculpture, and explores the struggle that often dominates the mind when trying to resolve or understand the unknown, the divine, and the abstract connections the human mind pieces together.

Mafrici has exhibited in both Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe (2016 & 2017) and Bondi (2017) and was awarded the Rio Tinto Young Emerging Artist Mentorship Program in 2016, the Federal Government Catalyst Fund (2017), as well as sponsorship and a Sculptor Subsidy from ALCOA. Mafrici has also exhibited locally at Turner Galleries and Mundaring Arts Centre, as well as overseas in IMPACT 9 in Hangzhou as a result of the New Colombo Plan Student Mobility Grant in 2015.