Resurrection

Donald Pass produced a series of works based on the Resurrection. The earlier works are large black and white drawings; he later utilized watercolours, and now uses a mix media of watercolour, gouache, coloured inks, and conté crayons. He hoped that “my work is a mirror of the Resurrection that I saw. One becomes very conscious of greater powers beyond us; I was very conscious of them in the Vision. All I saw was a heavenly garment really, and the greater things beyond us we probably never will see.” He intended his work on the Resurrection to be an expression of life and hope, not death, as he believed that the Resurrection shows that life will continue, that death is a transformation within life. He believed that “we are all one of the great many beings who will eventually rise from the dead and be a part of this great scene. We are important and small in relation to this. I believe that every one being, that every creature on Earth, is held in compassion by God, and I believe God is the centre of compassion. This is the one thing that came through all this: the one thing I felt all the way through this is this overwhelming sense of compassion.”