Saul and Christ on the Road to Damascus
Saul and Christ on the Road to Damascus
Artist
Ted Jones
(born 1927)
Date2005
MediumWood
Dimensions84 x 70 1/4 x 49 in. (213.4 x 178.4 x 124.5 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2007.190
Accession number
2007.190
On View
Not on viewLabel TextBy using simple, direct forms, Ted Jones depicts the dramatic moment of Saul’s conversion on the road to Damascus. In the biblical New Testament story, Saul had been a persecutor of Christians, but was struck by a blinding light from heaven accompanied by the voice of Christ, which led to his swift change of heart.
Jones’s faith often plays into his selection of subject matter––for the artist, “art is a spiritual experience.” Using his work as a platform for explorations of faith, Jones added another reference to salvation into this scene, incorporating nails into the hands and feet of Saul as a reference to Christ’s crucifixion.
