Jesus Clock

Created by artist Manfred Erjautz and installed in the Spitalskirche in downtown Innsbruck, with the permission of Bishop Hermann Glettler.

the upside-down wooden corpus projects from a mechanism on a shaft that is embedded in the torso. The severed arms of the sculpted icon of the Crucified mark the minutes and seconds on the timepiece.

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Posted By: Alex - Sun Mar 24, 2019
Category: Religion

Comments

That is definitely one of the weirdest things I have ever seen, in and of itself. What makes it even weirder is the fact that it is in a church with a bishop’s permission!

Posted by Judy on 03/24/19 at 04:48 PM

In the link, the bishop tells us that this thing "...confronts us with serious questions about the essence of life."

Posted by Virtual on 03/25/19 at 10:38 AM

How does this thing ”confront us with serious questions about the essence of life” and WHAT serious questions does it confront us with?

Posted by Judy on 03/25/19 at 03:54 PM

Why upside down?

Posted by Brian on 03/26/19 at 11:07 PM

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