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the clouds of my eyes part
to see what you cannot
oh there will be a time
when you wished that
wombs were barren trees

the world is tearing in two
because of me

Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
you will become a garden of flame

winter...winter...
and the fleeing of bare feet on jagged stone
crash upon you
the moutains
weeping to the sea"
-k.rolly

"Not For Me"
STATION EIGHT
"Jesus Comforts the Women of Jerusalem"

Mixed media oilgraph on canvas with blood
36"x36"

“Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!”
and to the hills, “Cover us!” For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

But perhaps comfort is not the word, for in this moment no comfort could be afforded to any. Here women who are mothers, soon to be mothers and perhaps may never be mothers reach out to Jesus in their grief. Above, a tree half in bloom, half barren sits precariously upon a mountain's edge. The future is unknown and all anyone has are last words.

In the shooting of this scene, the actors were given three choices to speak to Jesus: Tell him good-bye, thank him or tell him you love him. We are asked to contemplate "Even in the midst of an uncertain future, what would you have said to Jesus in this moment? What would you say now?"

Scriptural references:
Luke 23:27-31 (above)

CAST
Jesus - Paulo Durazzo
Simon - Howard Karesh
Women of Jerusalem (clockwise from the upper right) - Rebecca O'Malley (pregnant mother), Erica Lowenberg, Brooke Parks (infant), Audra, Sydney Karesh, Kayla Winirez, Heidi Dubon