![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A more horrible way of dying could not be imagined. It’s what surrounded me when I was growing up. That’s how we cope.” But why does he, as an atheist, care? “I live in a society that is predominantly Christian and we have so-called Christian values – if you believe Theresa May. “We pretend to look at paintings of the crucifixion, but we don’t take on board what’s there. “It’s an image people have become blase about,” says Brown. These three fibreglass and stainless steel pieces, each measuring more than two metres tall, will certainly tower over people, just as Christ and the two thieves did on Calvary. “It’s my rendition of the crucifixion,” he says. It could be three cars crushed in a breaker’s yard painted in a jaunty style, or a trio of oversized candyflosses after a nuclear winter. G lenn Brown is showing me his latest sculpture, called Ain’t No Flies on the Lamb of God. ![]()
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