npts | 
05 8th, 2009| 
Painting of Mary Magdalene by first year seminary student, Kersti Bury
“After rising from the dead, Jesus appeared early on Sunday morning to Mary Magdalene, whom he had delivered from seven demons. She went to his former companions, now weeping and carrying on, and told them. When they heard her report that she had seen him alive and well, they didn’t believe her.”
–Mark 16:9-11, The Message
The painting that I did represents what might be the last illustration in a comic made about Mary Magdalene. I found inspiration in Baroque ecstasy sculptures, American Pop Art, and even Japanese anime. This painting is meant to illustrate Mary in a sort of ecstatic reaction—she has just witnessed angels and her resurrected Lord. The colors are meant to express a feeling of a new morning and being washed anew. The gold highlights illustrate what I imagine to be a sort of residual radiance coming from the newly resurrected Christ. Mary is crying both with a sheer joy at seeing Jesus alive, but also with a kind of sadness that He has to move on without her. If I were to make a comic about Mary, this is where I would end it—with hope.
