As we follow Christ along his way of sorrow this season of Lent, we come this week to his sentencing to death, depicted in this icon by Ukrainian Greek Catholic Artist Ivanka Demchuk. She belows to a circle of young West Ukrainian sacred art-makers, profiled in the New Iconography of Lviv page in the Schools of Sacred Art section, who are extending the boundaries of this conservative art form with different color palettes and contemporary types of compositions. In this theologically resonant image, the mockers of Christ occupy a sepia-toned moment of sacred history, torn like a scroll to reveal the eternal whiteness of Divine purpose underlying human affairs. Christ's vivid red garment marks him as the sacrificial lamb, just as the water Pilate used to wash his hands and absolve himself of responsibility in the Crucifixion is blood-colored. The way to Golgotha, marked by black and white tiles, leads out of the picture space and into God's plan for human redemption. (John Kohan)