The story behind the photograph
Fall of 2024 I was in Barcelona, Spain, and spent a day touring out to Montserrat. Hiked up to the Saint Michael’s Cross (Creu de Sant Miquel, standing 2,500 feet up, it’s easy to see why ancient pilgrims were spellbound by the view of the Montserrat Monastery tucked into the serrated cliffs. "Montserrat" translates to "serrated mountain" or "jagged mountain" in Catalan, and it makes complete sense when you see it. A truly unforgettable landscape.”
In the Cross of Our Lord · Galatians 6:14
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world”
In Tom Bartel's words
“Fall of 2024 I was in Barcelona, Spain, and spent a day touring out to Montserrat.”
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From the photograph Saint Miquel Cross by Tom Bartel, Colorado · View the original →
Picture
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Format
Crisp detail on archival fine-art paper, set behind glazing in a gallery frame.
Size
Holds a wall on its own, over a console or desk
33.5″ × 25.5″ on the wall, with the frame
Good detail. Made to be seen from a step or two back, as a piece this size usually is.
Above 24″, printed from an enlarged file
The piece was developed in our studio using digital and AI tools, and the same tools enlarged it for large-format printing. At these sizes fine detail is interpreted rather than photographed.
Frame: Natural
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A weathered summit cross, its shaft marked with stickers and scratched graffiti and its centre set with an ironwork rosette, rises from the lower left corner into an unbroken depth of blue. Behind it stand rounded conglomerate pinnacles fringed with scrub, their gullies dark against sunlit stone. Hard high sun rakes the rock from the left and leaves the metal of the cross in flat silhouette, while the sky deepens from pale haze at the ridgeline to near-ultramarine overhead.
Why these words
The whole frame is organised around a single weathered cross leaning over bare limestone, with nothing else raised against the sky; the verse names that one thing as the only thing worth boasting in.
The photograph that inspired this piece
It begins with an original photograph by Tom Bartel of a real place. This version was developed from that photograph in our studio, using digital and AI tools guided by the original’s own composition, and these words set over the finished picture. How these are made.
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