Tile

A group of six wall plaques were made to represent the stations of the cross and were originally planned for a church in Los Angeles. The group of tiles were never installed in the church, so instead the artist kept them in her studio and home until her death.

Representation of the Sixth Station in a Stations of the Cross series. The devotion known as the Stations of the Cross (or the Way of the Cross) is an adaptation to local usage of a custom widely observed by pilgrims to Jerusalem: the offering of prayer at a series of places in that city traditionally associated with Jesus' passion and death. Traditionally the stations are made before a series of plain wooden crosses, placed along the walls of the church or in some other convenient place. With each cross there is sometimes associated a pictorial representation of the event being commemorated.

"Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus," from the artist's "Stations of the Cross" series. The large square tile is made up of 9 smaller square tiles mounted on a plywood back with a metal eye hook. The figures on the tiles are three-dimensional. Jesus carries a cross in the centre, flanked by Veronica and a woman praying.