Karen Brodie

Dec 15, 2025   Well, Station #14 is ready for sewing. It is adhered together to the point I need it to be as I begin, which will be shortly. It seems rather strange to be spending the week with Jesus in the tomb while all around me is Christmas music, lights, presents wrapped and under the tree…My assistant noticed that as they took photos of our work in the studio the weather out the window has changed from winter to summer and back to winter again. I am contemplating today in all that this...

Dec 6, 2025   Station #14 has begun! This is truly a significant moment worthy of noticing. Hard to fathom is the place I was in a year ago, stepping out in both faith and trust into the unknown. It hasn’t gone by in a flash, but rather feels like a long row of similar days, a marathon, when I dedicated an entire year to repeating a pattern: trust, prepare, begin… trace pieces, cut them out, choose fabrics, iron the pieces on to the fabrics, cut them out again, adhere them together in their...

Dec 3, 2025   Station #13 was completed, and we entered Advent. I would never have connected the image of Mary holding the body of Jesus with Mary becoming pregnant and anticipating the birth  of this, her son, yet it has just become real for me. Station #13 holds the moment of heart-wrenching, heavy, all-consuming grief that descends when a parent unimaginably holds their child’s last earthly remains. The colours are intense and dark, yet there is a kind of beauty in the connection as they...