destiny

churches everywhere,

hundred of crosses,  

different interpretations of Christ.

a suffering man, 

an agonized man, 

a bleeding man,

crucified, 

starved, 

tired, 

overwhelmed.

a male body is emerging off the bronze door, 

he seems like being created or vanishing, 

melting back in the metal, 

floating and at the same time, 

trapped in a thick and heavy magma

a cross is embossed  on his chest.

his body hasn't neither feet nor hands

he is not crucified 

he has a cross as a stigma deep carved on him,

soaring and dividing his chest

sealing, marking, wounding him

and leaving his body for ever 

as a reminder, a gesture of passion.

(pictures: the door of the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and the Martyrs
in Rome, created by Igor Mitoraj in 2006)