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This is a cross I constructed using bracken collected near the Cow and Calf rocks in Yorkshire. 

This is the first cross I have created and has featured several times in my work, in various designs and formats.  I have also experimented with scale and, at it’s most dramatic, this image has been used to create a 2.5 m long textile hanging. 

It’s a striking image in its simplicity and, to me, communicates both beauty and mystery.

 image © Sally Baker 2005

Before designing the bracken cross, I had never considered working with any kind of representations or re-working of the cross.  Out of all my designs, I would say that this particular image has impacted more people on a more profound level and for that reason I intend to explore how the designs of other crosses could arrest someone’s attention and communicate something of God to them.