Stations Journal Journey #29

October 23, 2025.

Station number 12 begins! This is such a joyful thing to say that it strikes me as ironic to know this will be the death of Jesus. 

We are beginning with the paper pattern, as usual, but my studio assistant created all the other paper patterns last spring, so this is the first we’ve drafted in a while. After that we trace the line drawing projected onto the paper to scale. All the others have been finished at 36” x 44”, however, number 12 was always going to be the anomaly. To have it be just a bit more significant and key to the narrative, it is going to be square. We’ve been waiting to decide the measurements while we sourced some travelling cases for this series. In the end, it is going to be 44” square although we start with a pattern that is 52” square to allow for finishing. 

After the tiny, involved piecework of #11, Beau and I are predicting that nothing could be harder than that one! That, though there may be challenges, no art left in this series will be as difficult to bring to life (depicting the death…). But we’ll see! With each new design we guess how many pieces it will take. We’ll have to do that today. So far we either overestimate or underestimate our guesses!

I do not make light of the significance of this Station: Jesus Dies On The Cross. I wish I could say that the lightness of spirit has to do with knowing that Jesus died on the cross for me. Though this may be true, if I have learned nothing else from this project, it is how multi-faceted the meaning of this part of the story is. That life and death are undeniably intertwined. 

I am so very close to this journey that Jesus took. I am not seeing the big picture, currently, only the close up version of each tiny microstep. It is in my face. I will trust that its full significance will also be present as we create.