Morgan says it is about his own struggles to understand what the sacrifices mean in a modern context and what we have learned from them, if anything.
The living Christ resurrected is a symbol of salvation, says Morgan, and he believes Anzac Day is asking us to see men who fought and died as our salvation.
"Salvation for what?" he asks.
"We have forgotten the horrors of war and that men invaded each other's space and killed in the name of freedom."
That does not mean he disrespects the memory of those who died, he says.
"I bless them in my own way but my ideology opposes their going to war."
Morgan says reading The Great Wrong War; New Zealand Society in WWI by New Zealand author Stevan Eldred-Grigg helped to formulate his ideas for the exhibition.
One of the works in Stations portrays the suffering of Mark Briggs - a NZ conscientious objector who would later become a Labour Minister.
Briggs, along with 13 other objectors, was forcibly conscripted and taken to a French battlefield during WWI where, despite being tortured and dragged through mud, he still refused to fight.
Gallery owner Bill Milbank said visitors are responding with great enthusiasm to the exhibition.
Lee Morgan is also winner of the Central City Pharmacy Excellence Award for les demoiselles; if only for one night in the 2018 Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Arts Review.
His work, along with all the other finalists' work is on show at Sarjeant on the Quay.
Lee Morgan's Stations - Milbank Gallery, 1b Bell St. Gallery hours Tuesday-Sunday, 11am-5pm.
