JESUS

The first image of Jesus I remember were from a picture hanging in my aunt's house. I think he was knocking at a door. I must have been about three or four years old. There are endless interpretations over the last two thousand years of what Jesus looked like from paintings, to sculptures, to movies. As I got older, I thought it was amusing to see a lot of these interpretations make him out to be a slightly tanned guy with light brown, flowing hair and light eyes. Looked like he belonged on a beach with a surf board, rather than a Middle Eastern guy walking through the desert preaching God's word. Not too long ago, I saw this show on TV about what Jesus really looked like using a computer scan of the Shroud of Turin. This was the burial cloth his body was supposedly wrapped in and has an image of him on it. After studying the cloth no one can determine what caused the imprint. Most likely it was some supernatural phenomenon of some sort. It was really fascinating to see the process the scientists and artists went through to get to the final image. Around the same time, I caught part of the movie Talladega Nights, during which Ricky Bobby was going on about how the version of Jesus he likes to pray to is little infant baby Jesus. So all this got me to thinking about my own version. What would he look like? Now, in part of the creative process you just find yourself drifting along to wherever it takes you. You start heading in one direction and it starts to zig and zag until you wind up with whatever it is. So this is where I wound up. The crucified version I'm OK with. The other almost seems like if I drew him with a guitar he should be in a rock band or something. Throw a suit of armor on him and he's a knight. Give him a Lightsaber and he's a Jedi! Or a surf board?

Crucified

Jesus Christ Rock Star, Surfer, or Jedi Knight?