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Station III (detail)
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The Stations of the Cross are a devotional practice which originated in the early centuries of the Christian Church. Pilgrims who could not walk the "Way of the Cross" in Jerusalem, were able to simulate this pilgrimage as they viewed a series of images which depicted the events of the Crucifixion (the Passion narrative.) In subsequent centuries the Passion narrative became a major subject for artists as well as musicians, although many artists (notably, Rembrandt and Dürer) did not attempt to create a complete set of Stations.
Margaret Adams Parker describes her woodcut Stations as images created "to convey, without words, the physical and spiritual weight of the journey to the Cross." She began the project in 1995, with a set of charcoal drawings. The first woodcuts were created in 1998. She completed the set of 14 woodcuts in 2005.
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