He was falsely accused, arrested, slapped, spit on, had His beard pulled out
of His face, sent to court where though no guilt was found was sentenced to be beaten to within an inch
of HIs life, struck with rods, whipped with a weapon that had
sharp bones and different
pieces tore large chuncks
of flesh off, drug back to court wearing a robe which when the blood dried to it became its own bit
of torture, the first beating not good enough so sentenced to die, had a crown
of thorns pressed down into his skull causing much more blood loss, beaten some more, forced to carry an extremely heavy
wood beam as he marched toward His death, whipped and beaten along the way, had huge nails driven through His hands and feet, and had a shoulder separated.
Paper played a major role in Laura
Sharp Wilson's layered biomorphic abstractions in acrylic and graphite on Unryu, mulberry or silk paper, and it was used as a support for many
of the
pieces in Lori Ellison's copious exhibition
of patterned abstractions in ink on notebook paper as well as gouache on
wood (both shows were at McKenzie Fine Art on the Lower East Side).