Jesus died....

Artist: Juilee Pryor
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Jesus died....

something I saw written on a wall of a derelict inner city punk squat many years ago and was compelled to photograph. recently rediscovered while digitizing negative files this photo has not been seen for twenty years.

this is what it looks like as a laminated print.

Jesus died.... belongs to the following groups:

Film Photography, Kairos - Capturing the Decisive Moment, Street Photography and Photojournalism and The Urban Environment

Paul Louis Vil..., 11 months ago

Love the intensity of the direction of your latest uploads Juliee! Very emotive and thought provoking. Well done! :D
Juilee Pryor, 11 months ago

thanks Paul I guess if I’m not going to be popular or make lots of sales I may as well just start posting stuff I actually like myself. :)
Robert Knapman, 11 months ago

Indeedy I totally agree – your on the money there ;)) I like this too – the energy, story and design.
stumuckley, 11 months ago

Excellent photo – love it. Reminds me of something similar I saw years ago but didn’t have a camera with me at the time :-(
michael51, 11 months ago

some times the truth is the hardest of all conviction to reveal, good work , we are only human
Patricia L. Ba..., 11 months ago

You find the most interesting graffiti.
vonne, 11 months ago

WOW a Very angry young person I would guess = ( I have been at war with God myself before. Good thing he is patient = )
Very powerful photo.
Scott Denny, 11 months ago

This photo is very troubling for me. It is a sad reality that there is such intense forces to discredit God. Thank you for posting this. It reminds me of the kind of prayer that is needed for the world we live in. I pray the author has come to a different conclusion. Nice job with this photo. Thanks again.
jemimalovesbigted, 11 months ago

Thank you for finding it. Its a great photo.
MtnMan, 11 months ago

I just submitted a picture at Artismurder and it involves writing on the wall. Nasty writing behind a girlfriend I’m photographing with light coming in a window. I bring it up because my present wife said the girl friend must have wrote it! That photo is 30 years old and if it were not for my film scanner I would have never noticed it.
Juilee Pryor, 11 months ago

thanks everybody for your wonderful responses to this picture. I hesitated for a while as I’d previously posted a shot of some “graffitihttp://www.”redbubble.com/people/juileep/art/157792-5-god-bless-the-mentally-ill! near where I live and it really upset someone. So I realised that this image also has the capacity to upset someone out there. So its not personal, its just a photograph. But is has its own message.
Juilee Pryor, 11 months ago

damned link. try this God bless the mentally ill!
Juilee Pryor, 11 months ago

MntMan I’d love to see that old photo.
Juilee Pryor, 11 months ago

Scott and vonne this image is from the same time and place and people as in to death us do drug

I so hope this link works. fingers crossed.
Boadicea, 11 months ago

This would make a great T-shirt.
Juilee Pryor, 11 months ago

thanks Bodacia I hadn’t thought of that.
Melissa Vowell, 11 months ago

this is awesome.
berndt2, 11 months ago

Nicely taken – I like the faint colours in the shot, giving it more of a ‘documentary’ feel.
Juilee Pryor, 11 months ago

thanks melissa. :)
Juilee Pryor, 11 months ago

Hi Bernt2 I’m glad you like this image. the colour devives from it being a b/w negative that I have scanned with a RGB profile. In order for this to be a true b/w I would need to convert the profile to greyscale which I would normally do but I liked the delicate colours of the image. Seems to give it a bit more depth.
Kerry McFarland, 10 months ago

What a great piece. Worth the wait.
Juilee Pryor, 10 months ago

thanks Kerry.
HarbourCityCards, 10 months ago

gee this is a bit over the top. but I guess it is just graffitti. very brave
scottwynn, 10 months ago

very cool shot!
Juilee Pryor, 10 months ago

thanks scott.
Damian, 10 months ago

Great shot, love the framing of it, as well as the sentiment – people are entitled to their own beliefs, there are many many different creation myths in the world, of which christianity is just one.
Juilee Pryor, 10 months ago

thanks Damien one of my very favorite creation myths was written by JR Tolkien. Its called the simillrion (?) and is not much more that a long essay but its amazing.
Daniel Neuhaus, 10 months ago

WOW!
I don’t agree with what it says, but I like it!!!
Juilee Pryor, 10 months ago

Thanks Daniel. This is not a comment from me just an observation that I was able to capture.
mrslowney, 9 months ago

i think when it comes to art you don’t need to agree or disagree with the message necessarily and it can be appreciated for its artistic value. I may not agree with the phrase but I still think it is a wonderful photo and very powerful. Art is an outlet and you’ve captured that here. It is a great shot and I’m glad you decided to post it!
Juilee Pryor, 9 months ago

thanks for your wonderful comments mrslowney….:)
Coralie Casey, 9 months ago

This photo does make me sad because the person who wrote the message must have been in an awfully lonely place in life. My heart goes out to that person.

The fact that the message is not true does not take away from the fact that you have framed this beautifully and captured the emotion of the moment.
Elysia Ranking, 8 months ago

Love it.
Melissa Contreras, 8 months ago

I like this alot! well done for deciding to upload things you like yourself! Great work.
Juilee Pryor in reply to Melissa Contreras’s comment, 8 months ago

thanks Melissa….. in the end you have to do what works for you….:)
bearhat, 7 months ago

what better allegory for a broken faith than a torn umbrella. this is so powerful on so many levels.
Juilee Pryor in reply to bearhat’s comment, 7 months ago

thanks bearhat and yes the symbology is important to me although you are the only person who has actually picked up on it. the battered brolly will still give shelter if needed just like a battered faith.. .... glad you like it…..:)
JohnScott, 7 months ago

defiant till the end, all the person has to acknowledge is something greater than oneself.
Juilee Pryor in reply to JohnScott’s comment, 7 months ago

thanks John ….yes defiant till the end…. unfortunately this particular graffitist didn’t last much longer in this vale of tears. sad but true. this picture brings them right back to me though. like it was yesterday.
Lawford, 7 months ago

Classic. Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw years ago.
‘Jesus Saves. At East West Credit Union.’
Juilee Pryor in reply to Lawford’s comment, 7 months ago

thanks Lawford… do you think they would take this into the living christianity group?
Lawford, 7 months ago

It’s the only way to be truly saved I think. What is it? 7.5% at the moment.
kseriphyn, 7 months ago

Cool shot. Very urban.
Juilee Pryor in reply to Lawford’s comment, 7 months ago

huh 7.5% of what…? I probably save about 7.5% of my shower water with a bucket to put down the loo …. do you think that counts?
Juilee Pryor in reply to kseriphyn’s comment, 7 months ago

thanks KSeriphyn….. I was trying to remember something pithy from the good book about the words of the prophets being written on the subway walls but then I realized they didn’t have subways back then so it must have been an old hippy song…. darn it….
4getsundaydrvs, 5 months ago

great image
Juilee Pryor in reply to 4getsundaydrvs’s comment, 5 months ago

thanks heaps 4getdundaydrvs….glad you like it…..:)
sterry, 5 months ago

great photo, it was the lighting i think that drew me to it first. the words are from
Reality Asylum by Crass
Juilee Pryor in reply to sterry’s comment, 5 months ago

thanks heaps sterry and yes its from a Crass song….Crass were really really big around the time this was taken and the graffitti in this squat was very Crass and punk in its tone and origins….. so glad you like it….its a very old image…...:)
animo, 3 months ago

priceless. a great piece. btw the positioning of the umbrella (incidental or deliberate) is brilliant : )
Julie Miles, about 1 month ago

As opposed to everyone else, apparently, I was drawn to this piece of art because I think it speaks some truth, in a sense. I don’t believe Jesus died for my sins. I don’t believe he necessarily died for his own, either, but if there is a god of any sort, I doubt an execution that took place 2000 years ago has much bearing on my life today.

That aside, the piece is fascinating. It could say “I own 20 penguins” and still have a wonderful, artistic quality to it.
Juilee Pryor in reply to Julie Miles’s comment, about 1 month ago

hey thanks Julie….. yes there is something timeless about the arrangement of the image. the place it was shot in was a punk squat in the innercity some years ago and the whole place was covered in graffitti like that….... thanks for your comments
Alycia K, 12 days ago

I love this. Nice message really cool picture =)
Juilee Pryor in reply to Alycia K’s comment, 11 days ago

thanks Alycia….. glad you like it…..:)