Catalog of Crosses

I. Stick
II. Broken Stick
III. BIRD TABERNACLE
IV. TAU CROSS
V. MADONNA TABERNACLE
VI. CALVARY DIPTYCH
VII. TRINITY
VIII. ALAN’S WALK
IX. STAG CROSS
X. GREEK CROSS

On country walks I often gather fallen twigs and branches that speak to me. I came across this Y-shaped oak fragment in the forest surrounding a Massachusetts pond. The splayed arms of the fork, the taut weightiness of the upright trunk, and the scraps of bark adhering like a vestigial shroud—together they imply a crucifix conceived without standard iconography.