A Heavy Burden

About this artwork

This image I painted some years ago portrays the deep anguish of feeling that we are moving forward without a certain direction. In the center of the canvas, we have Jesus Christ, the son, and emissary of God, who poured out his blood to redeem mankind, carrying a heavy cross made up of all the sins and miseries that humanity has been accumulating throughout history. Jesus walks suffering, timeless and eternal, carrying that heavy weight in front of a society that observes him indifferent and guiltless, a society made of men who do not assume that the tragic burden of history is a consequence of their actions. The cross is built as a "collage" of images that refer to moments in history and nefarious characters. Words such as the holocaust, nuclear weapons, torture, racism, or unemployment merge into a dark, dirty, and aged texture. Finally, absent from all this, Jesus turns his eyes to the spectator, looking for his father in him, becoming an accomplice of his pain and asking for mercy for them. In this way, we become, by looking at the painting, for a short moment, not sinful men but God Himself.