Artist
Shuvinai Ashoona
(Canadian, b. 1961)
Heads Emerge from the Rocks
Date2015
Mediumcoloured pencil and ink
Supportpaper
Dimensions124.5 × 83.8 cm (max.)
Credit LinePurchase, John H. and Elizabeth Moore Acquisition Fund, 2018
Object number018.A.016
NameDrawing
![AND WHEN JESUS HAD BEEN BAPTISED HE IMMEDIATELY CAME UP FROM THE WATER AND BEHOLD THE HEAVENS WERE OPENED TO HIM AND HE SAW THE SPIRIT OF GOD DESCENDING AS A DOVE AND BEHOLD A VOICE FROM THE HEAVENS SAID... [FROM THE PASSION OF ST. MATTHEW]](/internal/media/dispatcher/34400/thumbnail)
![FROM THAT TIME, JESUS BEGAN TO PREACH AND SAY: REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND [FROM THE PASSION OF ST. MATTHEW]](/internal/media/dispatcher/34393/thumbnail)
![BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID: IT IS WRITTEN NOT BY BREAD ALONE DOES MAN LIVE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD [FROM THE PASSION OF ST. MATTHEW]](/internal/media/dispatcher/34395/thumbnail)
![THEN THE DEVIL TOOK HIM TO THE HOLY CITY AND THERE SET HIM DOWN ON THE PINNACLE OF THE TEMPLE SAYING TO HIM: IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD, CAST YOURSELF DOWN TO EARTH… [FROM THE PASSION OF ST. MATTHEW]](/internal/media/dispatcher/34401/thumbnail)
![HE WITHDREW INTO GALILEE AND LEAVING THE TOWN OF NAZARETH HE CAME AND DWELT IN CAPHARNUM WHICH IS BY THE SEA IN THE TERRITORY OF ZABULON AND NEPHTHALIN [FROM THE PASSION OF ST. MATTHEW]](/internal/media/dispatcher/34394/thumbnail)
![AND AFTER FASTING FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS, HE WAS HUNGRY [FROM THE PASSION OF ST. MATTHEW]](/internal/media/dispatcher/34405/thumbnail)