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August 29, 2008 |
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Gorey Jesus
FOUND by Amber Dawn
I found this crumpled up in a trash can, along with a drawing of a squid and a crow. It is by somebody named Reginald.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I totally get this.
gorey jesus? how about oh shit jesus, or even just surprised jesus. he looks like he just walked in on mary and joseph "doin it" in the biblical sense.
jesus looks like he's had a few too many brownies
and after this pic, if anyone ever tells me they were "touched by jesus", I won't be able to hold back the knee-jerk shudder reaction...
This jesus was just informed that leprosy is, in fact, contagious. Ooooops!
This like a combination of the other two drawings; crow face and squid hands. I assume the title refers to Edward Gorey, I love his illustrations and they do not look like this!
sweet zombie jesus!
i think i look like this sometimes when the night was too long....
Imagine being blind from birth, then being cured with a mere touch; this is the first thing you see.
Byzantine! check plus plus smiley face!
This reminds me of an exercise we did in art class where you cut a magazine photo in half and drew in the other half of the face. Most people's faces, when cut down the middle in a photo, show one side kinder and smilier than the other. We were supposed to reproduce the existing half symmetrically...which proved that we need irregularity in features.
But this is taking it a bit too far.
And the Spam protection question is hylarious.
1+1+1=1 if you're talking about the Holy Trinity, but the captcha won't accept that.
OH MY! That Jesus has Salad Fingers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_Fingers) **SHUDDER** that is so incredibly creepy!
You've heard of "Buddy Christ". This must be another member of the trinity, "Trippin' Jesus".
Okay, off the top of my head (and despite my remark yesterday afternoon) I'm having trouble coming up with a connection between this Find and the other one for today.
My other theory about the mysteries of Found is that the Finds of the day somehow relate to the day itself (like having a signed George Wallace photo on the opening day of the Democratic convention to nominate Barack Obama ... pure genius!). And I'm coming up blank on that score, too.
Maybe my theories are full of holes. Which would make them holey. Which sounds like holy. Which ... oh, never mind.
At first I thought Reginald was just not a very good artist. Then I saw the hands and realized everything in the drawing is deliberate. He reminds me of my stepdad, who was the honest to God writer of the find I've mentioned here. http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/710
Read down to the bottom of the comments for an explanation. I commented as Mood in digo.
Maybe this is Jesus looking at what people have made out of His church. There's a lot of good being done in, by, and through the church, but folks have also tried so hard to make it "theirs" that sometimes it's no longer God's church. I pastor once told me, "Church would be a great place if it weren't for the people." Sad, but true.
I like him. I think I'd like to talk to him for awhile. Reminds me of what I often tell people...I have no problem with Jesus, it's his fanclub...
Lol @ whats cookin. One of my all time favorite movies. I prefer the "Buddy Christ" over "Trippin' Jesus" anyday though....
This creeped me out. I can't even look at it. It gives me the jibblies. Thanks a lot, Reginald.
wrye, I'm glad somebody else picked up the Byzantine-ness of the find. :)
it looks like a cross between jesus and bin laden
Okay Librarian...
Here is your connection. Early Christians used to burn witches at the stake.
No one seems to have picked up on the fact that "Jesus" is holding a presumed bible with a cross on it (new testament) which would not have existed until 200 years or so after his death.
Jesus saw you flashing Ike and Carl in study hall. He seems...impressed?
And, Jesus evidently had his hair done by my sister (who is a wonderful hairdresser and a fan of streaks).
If by "crumpled up in the trash" you mean "laying flat on a stack of other papers"....
This Jesus has Salad Finger hands.
Such strong eyebrows. He looks very eastern European with that halo about his head. Very stylized, like an Orthodox icon.
I'd still prefer the squid drawing.
@ Feeling ... that might work only if by "early Christians" you mean ones hundreds of years after the founding of the Church. Given Nero and all that, closer connection would be early Christians who themselves were burned at the stake. I was wondering whether there could be something about Incarnation - carne (Latin) - flesh - meat .... Seems a little too irreverent, though.
Also, this is modeled on Eastern Orthodox icons, so of course He would be holding a Bible, or the Gospels - the incarnate Word holding the written Word which records his spoken Word.
I don't know if he's Jesus, but he's undeniably a crackhead.
Good point, Turbo. Unless Jesus rocked some remarkable de-wrinkling magic on it.
hey! it's jesus's love child with salad fingers!!
@Feeling... you're making the common mistake of thinking that religion should make sense.
@Librarian, re connection... maybe the way communion is supposed to turn into the actual flesh/meat of Jesus after it passes the lips of the parishioner/cannibal? You know. Transubstantiation.
Those eyebrows are nothing short of intense.
I don't know what's scarier: the traditional image of the Big JC- crucified, half naked and bleeding all slack-jawed and staring or Reginald's image of the Big JC- bug-eyed and reaching out with sea monster hands.
By GOD, he's got *SQUID* fingers! I really like thisdrawing...my type of artwork.
Although, I would have made His face a wee bit more gentle looking.
Thanks for sending this in, AMBER!
That is one fancy wide-brimmed hat he's got on....
uh......... wow. Jesus is scary. I'm a Buddhist now. OOOMMMMMMMMM........
If some miracle happened, and Salad Fingers, Ted Nugent and Peter Gallagher could have a baby together, this is what we'd get. As long as the baby grew up to do the Live Nativity at the corner Baptist church every Christmas...
This must have been after he read the entire job description.
@Pastor Z, where I live we have a saying: The Church is the Lord's...and He wants her back.
Any Jethro Tull fans out there who remember the song "Jesus Saves!? As always, they were not far wrong....
LOOK BUSY! JESUS IS COMING!!!!
"In the name of Me, that's some gooood stuff"
"Holy Shit!"
Hey, Jesus. Scorsese called. He wants his eyebrows back.
I had to draw this same picture for my 10th grade middle eastern civ class... It's Byzantinian art that would usually be a mosiac on the ceilings of churches..
Ai! The spam protection question = 42 = the meaning of life! I love!
Who goosed Jesus?
Byzantine. The word is Byzantine.
Reminds me of the local equivalent to a dollar-store. They sell Chinese made religious figurines that sometimes are funny, sometimes very scary. The funny ones include The Sacred Heart of Mary statue labelled as "St Francis"...obviously the workers who stick on the labels don't know or care that Frankie was a guy while Mary was not.
Walked past the other day and saw a classic bust of Jesus Crowned with Thorns, with the most terrifying horror-movie eyes I've ever seen. I bet they even glowed in the dark.
Not very uplifting but it would sure make you think about death.
Haha, orinoco, you made me remember the time I was living in Jerusalem. As you can imagine, there was some pretty kitshy religious stuff that were being sold to the tourist, ie. things like a giant glow in the dark rosary, authentic "water from the river Jordan," Jesus and Mary images that changed when you looked at them from a different angle (if you caught the right angle, it looked like Jesus was winking at you), a pen with the scene of the last supper on it. When you flipped the pen over, the wine cup on the table would float down the table. Good stuff.
@ Farmer...good point.
He doesn't look like he's ready to burst out with, "Always look on the bright side of life..."
This caricature looks like something I would see on South Park.
Librarian, I'm seeing the connection. This Jesus is failing at feeding everyone with fish and loaves of bread, he's sent out for the steaks, called in the big guns. There ya go.
Now I'm gonna have to make a connection every day, thanks for putting that one in my head.
This is kinda creepy, even without the meat from the next find factored in.
Blessed are the meek! Oh, that's nice, isn't it? I'm glad they're getting something, 'cause they have a hell of a time.
Morey Bodyboard Jesus: Surf's up, Dude!
(when I saw the word Gorey, I automatically thought of Morey Bodyboards...well, anyway, too late for coherent thought)
He looks like Charles Manson.
"The meek shall inherit the earth...if it's all right with the rest of you."
Sweet Tweakin' Jesus! Keep those creepy squid hands away from me!
"He's praised, it's true; he paints well, with subtlety. But there's something lacking in all his work. There's no awe, no faith... no faith that comes from the depth of his soul. No simplicity. As Epiphanius said of Saint Sergius: "Simplicity, without gaudiness." That is what this is. It's sacred. Simplicity, without gaudiness.. that's the best description."
Oh Jesus...you got that magic touch...
Byzantine icons had these exaggeratedly long fingers, I don't know why. See for example
http://tinyurl.com/6ppgou
So the artist is proably trying to copy a genuine original image, possibly this actual one.
-flashback to salad fingers-
-cringe-
That's one odd drawing Reginald.
The name Reginald sounds really familiar...
hmm...
This is completely creepy.
Reminds me of "Salad Fingers"
... look it up.
Hmmm... was it Reginald Kenneth Dwight?
I've been sitting here trying to figure out HOW I could possibly have missed this Find.. but then I realize it was published while I was on vacation. I thought I'd caught up on all the Finds I missed, but you know how those goofy arrows are..
This (tweeker) Jesus sees all.. and looks more like Nostradamus than the Christos.
This seems to be a copy of Jesus Christ the Pantokrator with exaggerated eyes. You can find the mosaic in the Monastery Church. I believe its in greece.
http://www.laudemont.org/sermons/pantokrator_2
sorry if someone already said this!
He looks like "the creepy old caretaker FROM Scooby Doo. As Shaggy would say, "Yikes!"