'For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him' John 3:16-17

Inspiration for Why? finally from Dali's painting Christ of St John of the Cross. My aesthetic aspirations however, differed from those of Dali. In the first instance, it was essential that my image of Christ crucified emerged out of an ethereal atmosphere, to break through and try to depict past to present. Like Dali, I wanted to portray Christ as the beautiful God that he is. I also wanted to portray Christ as the human being that he was, to portray the compassion of a tortured and murdered man, to create an image where it felt like Christ was coming into the space, not hovering above it, to depict the fact that the crucifixion is just as relevant today and not some historic fairy story.