A couple days after Easter I was on my way to class and when I turned the corner I saw a cross in front of a church. This cross was nothing fancy; I pass it almost everyday. It was a typical cross commonly seen in the front of most churches. The cross is normally the typical brown wood color you see in old logs, but since it was Easter the church has put flowers on the cross.
This stood out to me because this cross that is usually dull in appearance now had flowers; this burst of new life on this cross is what attracted my attention. The flowers were not what you would see at a funeral, a arranged bouquet, but appeared to had bloomed out of the wood in a natural way. Then it clicked, Easter is about the resurrection of Jesus Christ and this was symbolized, by this normally dull cross, in front of this church that had now seemingly grown flowers.
This brought me back to what we talked about at the start of the semester in the book The Project Gutenburg Ancient Art and Ritual. In the Ancient Art and Ritual book the celebration of the Egyptian God Orisus was about his ressurection; and the way his ressurection was symbolized was allowing barley to grow from his burial site, the "Garden" of the god. This, in my opinion, with the cross in front of the church was a great way to symbolize the ressurection of Jesus Christ while communicating it in an effective, simple, and beautiful way.
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