Here is my latest work that I thought I would share with you. It is a bit of a departure from my usual work with the etching process.
It is a German WWI shell casing with an applied crucifix. The manufacturer is Patronenfabrik Karlsruhe and dated june 1917. It has been fired, as can be seen from the photograph of the base above.
It is a comment on the concept of Holy War. If God is for us, who can be against?
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 8: 31-38)
Sadly, too many are seduced by the belief that we can kill and maim in the name of God, and if we win then we were correct in our assumptions that "God is with us".
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