{"id":4464,"date":"2026-01-30T15:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/?page_id=4464"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:05:25","slug":"the-cross-over-the-city-by-michael-edmonds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/the-cross-over-the-city-by-michael-edmonds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cross over the City by Michael Edmonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4465\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/files\/2026\/01\/Cross-over-city.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1292\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/files\/2026\/01\/Cross-over-city.jpg 1292w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/files\/2026\/01\/Cross-over-city-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/files\/2026\/01\/Cross-over-city-1024x617.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/files\/2026\/01\/Cross-over-city-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/files\/2026\/01\/Cross-over-city-800x482.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/files\/2026\/01\/Cross-over-city-664x400.jpg 664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1292px) 100vw, 1292px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.methodist.org.uk\/faith\/the-methodist-modern-art-collection\/browse-the-collection\/the-cross-over-the-city-michael-edmonds\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The Cross over the City by Michael Edmonds<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This subtle panel, formed of polyester, brass and mosaic, presents the viewer with a pleasing ambiguity that allows for personal interpretation. The regular ruddy rectangles that form the background could be suburban houses, freight lorries, storage boxes, or even xylophone keys, but whatever is suggested, the impact of the Cross superimposed over the whole is a reminder that the presence of Christ is to be sought and discovered in the humdrum ordinariness of life just as much as in recognised holy places. Therefore, although the colours are earthy, there is also a sheen of gold to the piece that is suggestive of a religious icon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This relief panel by Edmonds is a little reminiscent of Piet Mondrian&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Broadway_Boogie_Woogie\"><em>Broadway Boogie Woogie<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">, with its vibrant patterning of New York traffic <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">seen from above. However, while Mondrian&#8217;s grid is rendered in simple primary colours, Edmonds chooses a more sophisticated palette, varying around hues of rust and red, with the cross <span style=\"color: #000000;\">that overlays the whole accentuated in white and black.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Segoe UI;\">\u00a9<\/span> Alwyn Marriage 2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cross over the City by Michael Edmonds This subtle panel, formed of polyester, brass and mosaic, presents the viewer with a pleasing ambiguity that allows for personal interpretation. The regular ruddy rectangles that form the background could be suburban houses, freight lorries, storage boxes, or even xylophone keys, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/the-cross-over-the-city-by-michael-edmonds\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Cross over the City by Michael Edmonds<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4464","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4681,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4464\/revisions\/4681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}