 Among Rubin's contributions to the South African fine arts in this spirit was the 1961 "Sharpeville", a series of drawings devoted to the brutality of the Apartheid-era authorities during the Sharpeville massacre in 1960.Rubin's most controversial project on the South African art scene of the 1960s was "My Jesus", a provocative rendering of the crucifixion in which Jesus Christ appeared as a nude black figure with the head of a monster.The work contained the inscription "I forgive you O Lord, for you know not what you do" – a sardonically reversed "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do" – and depicted the naked figure with a slight hint of an erection.