| Mac Manus’ personal work
concentrates on the human body and its expressive potential and sees
it as a means of understanding the human condition through its design.
While studying the human figure at the New York Academy, he was struggling
with the meaning of what it means to be a body person, a soul within
a body. Through his research he came across a collection of writings
entitled the “Theology of the Body”
by the late Pope John Paul II. With this as his foundational understanding
of the human condition, he executed a half-life size sculpture of the Christ
crucified but uniquely without any skin or fatty tissue so as to confront
the viewer with naked reality in bones and muscle of the God man as an
icon of the “Theology of the Body”. |
