WIP She. I hope I don't raise any eyebrows.

Very good, the face is amazing, and I like the 'steam punk' cross with the rivets - also very different. 

You haven't raised my eyebrows - I'm rather good at waggling them: reverting to the Marx Brothers again: I'd try walking like Groucho, but I'd only put my back out - but you have caused me to wonder whether I much like this or not.  Crucifixion, even stylized, as your painting is, is a grisly subject - it was horrendously cruel.   I don't have any religious problems with it, because I don't have any religion; I had once though, and don't think I'd have had any strong theological objection to it. Still, I have been accused of over-thinking things - mind you, given most people UNDER think, I'm not so sure that's a vice....  I admire what you've done here, but I'd be happier if you didn't make a theme of it, if that makes any sense to you.  I shall work out my problems with the picture in due course .... won't necessarily burden you with my tortured thinking processes: I think what makes me uneasy is that it's heavier on the symbolism - whose meaning isn't necessarily entirely clear to me - than on the reality of a hideous, primitive torture.   Technically, it's another step on your journey - a diversion, perhaps, as well - but taken as a work of art, or a statement of belief or principle, it's leaving me a bit ambivalent.  

Very good indeed, Denise!  Your progress shines through.  However I would not like it on my walls.  It goes against my atheism and my otherwise Japanese and American themes.