God’s blessings are represented by the water in this painting. The bowl Jesus is holding is so full that it spills over – and even though it spills over, it is completely full. The face of Jesus is only partially visible, but your can see his reflection in the bowl.
After the praying man in this piece was completed, I spread a thick layer of black over the entire painting to symbolize the darkness of sin. I then squeezed a sponge brush saturated with diluted red dye onto the blackness. The red dye, symbolized the…
An optical illusion at the top of the tower in the painting makes the stairs appear to always ascend but never move higher is inspired by M. C. Escher’s 1960 “Ascending and Descending” lithograph. The illusion is created with a play on perspective that is…
One of my favorites, “Emergence” shows the hand of Christ moving the stone from His grave. I always imagined that early on Easter morning, before the sun had risen, an overwhelming light came from inside the tomb that held Jesus for 3 days after His…
