Christ By The River (Christ with Crosses) (Crucifixion)

Set against a fervent red field, the icon-like visage holds the viewer in a steady, almost judicial gaze, as if the face were a threshold between the earthly and the cosmic. The blunt, black cross and chapel silhouettes anchor the composition in ritual gravity, while the floating figures, sun, stars, and crescent moon loosen that certainty into a dream of belief—where salvation, play, and dread mingle without hierarchy. Bands of candy-colored architecture rise like ladders or totems at the margins, suggesting ascent yet also enclosure, and the birds at the chest read as both offering and omen, turning the body into a sanctuary for fragile, contradictory signs. The work’s deliberate flatness and saturated contrasts transform devotion into a folk myth, proposing faith not as doctrine but as a vivid, personal cosmology.