Mail - Ferntree Gully Mail - 16th April 2019

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Cross of Easter By Derek Schlennstedt

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A confronting art installation that draws parallels between Christ’s crucifixion and the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia has been erected at the front of the Tecoma Uniting Church. The work depicts a father, a pregnant mother and child each hanging from their own crucifix and labelled with the sites of Australia’s most controversial detention centres: Manus Island, Nauru and Christmas Island. Kallista resident and artist Reverend John Tansey used 800 metres of barbed wire to create the four-metre tall sculptures. Rev Tansey - who works in a mental health chaplaincy role - named his piece Deterrence and said the art reflected the crucifixion of the human rights of asylum seekers. “Since time began, governments have used terror, torture, and fear to reinforce their authority, and power over vulnerable people,” he said. “Through history all kinds of human rights abuses are justified by governments as deterrents and sadly this is our ongoing story with asylum seekers. "Jesus was crucified because he spoke out against injustice.” Rev Tansey said the work also reflected the way the cross was used in the past as a tool for fear and intimidation, and how the Australian government continued to use and abuse asylum seekers for political purposes. “We in Australia continue to banish people to off-shore detention or limit their life experience in on-shore centres by imposing crippling visas and reducing financial support," he said. "This treatment affects whole families and strips them of hope from their life experience.” Tecoma Uniting Church Minister Matt Cutler said he hoped the work would provoke people to look at the Easter story in a new way and reconsider the ethics of detention centres. “We don’t see ourselves as the moral guide or the experts on any issue but see ourselves as being a voice on issues, by starting a conversation,” he said.


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