Isaac McCann

Crucifixes is my reaction to the hand-drawn crosses I kept seeing on doorways around Edinburgh. I didn’t know who put them there or why, but they stayed with me - so I gave them my own meaning. Over the past year, I’ve experienced the end of a relationship, the loss of my brother to suicide, and a constant feeling of loneliness and confusion. For me, the crosses became symbols of forgiveness, hope, isolation, and change. This project follows those emotions through quiet moments and overlooked places - sometimes the cross is visible, sometimes only suggested in a shape or shadow. Sometimes it felt like I was the only one who had seen them, almost as though they were speaking to me. Even though the project is called Crucifixes, the crosses were never really the main focus - they were just a way to describe all the moments of my life over the last year. Mainly the moments where I was lost, looking for forgiveness, and then the moment at the end of the year that tore me apart.