Stations of Modern Persecution

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[Fairfield County Weekly] May 26, 2005--Gwyneth Leech said she did not set out to make a political statement when she painted her Stations of the Cross for St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Norwalk. Yet her contemporary portrayal, which includes images of soldiers, machine guns and barbed wire, juxtaposed with traditional biblical scenes, has garnered a lot of attention--and not all of it favorable. What troubles people most when they first view her Stations of the Cross is not the guns and soldiers, but the contemporary setting--the fact that the paintings aren't idealized biblical figures, she said.