There is a new lower class of rubbish that has emerged in the last couple of hundred years that needed removal from the cesspool of depraved souls. The task landed on my desk to build the Soul Catcher.
Soul Grasp Chimera flies in ruined skies above battlefields of soul-scarred lands.
With it's ghoul-like face and grotesque fusion of malice in glowing eyes, it hunts down the utterly depraved.
My depiction art dedicated to children suffering unbelievable cruelty. There is a cross for each one of the eight hundred innocent babies, starved, neglected and abused to death. All this, in the care of the Catholic Church order of the Sisters of Bon Secours in Tuam.
My depiction art dedicated to children.
Depicting the unbelievable cruelty that the Catholic Church foisted on innocent babies and their mothers, because they fell pregnant outside official church sanctioned marriage.
This is the third sculpture in my Soul Catcher series, the first two being aimed at the dirty pedophile priests and their ungodly enabler the Catholic Church.
Eight hundred babies and children were starved, neglected and abused to death by the nuns over a period from 1925 to 1961 as a Catholic-run Bon Secours institution.
This particular depiction model will be aimed at the souls of the Catholic nuns that, as women, went against every conceivable metric of human nurture, and under the umbrella of religion, got away with it.
This Cross Sculpture is in memory of all defenseless children past and present, suffering the unthinkable.
The shocking reality is that Tuam is but one institution, of thousands, who to this day, continue to inflict cruelty on the innocent desperately looking up to protectors, but they failed them.
Also complicit ............. THE SILENCE?
I started this project by making the 800 crosses. Each cross, in memory of each child, who did not survive the neglegt, starvation and abuse in Tuam Home.
Only when sitting down to hand make a large number of pieces, do you realize the scope of the amount of work. I made a pancake die out of hardened tool steel to punch the individual crosses out.
I made the main cross body out of 2 mm brass plate stock material.
The millipede legs were shaped on a lathe and then heat treated to bend them. Everything is screwed together in this sculpture.
Here are some of the completed 796 crosses, reminding us of each tortured child's lost soul.
I soldered each cross onto a 1 mm brass wire and then polished them individually.
An inner lining of 0.7mm copper was shaped to fit in the cross chariot.
The copper sheet cut into pointed triangles and then fused. These triangles represent teeth inside the cross chariot.
This wire forms the base frame for the Retribution Reaper. The head was carved out of wax first then cast in sand.
The body was fleshed out with sculptey polymer clay and then sand cast.
The hands, claws and tail were hand-made and then solfdered on.
The arms of the cross have spiked flowers, on which the devilish souls of the nuns, when they are caught and sentenced are spiked for eternity of damnation and agony.
Each one of the 800 crosses are spot welded to a 1 mm brass wire and then bundled and then screwed onto the coper lining.
The scales of justice is made out of silver . The serpent and the cape is made out of aluminium. The damantion spikes are made out of iron.
This shows the depraved souls of the nuns impaled onto the iron spikes oozing blood.
The pebbles represent burning coal fire through which the Chariot of Retribution marches.
