I painted the open door to show what would happen if you answered Jesus’ knock at the door. I painted the cross at the entrance of the door and showed the shadow of it on the ground leading “inside” toward the observer.
I have seen many paintings and sketches (even coloring book pages) of Jacob physically wrestling with God. What I found to be most interesting about this was the fact that they wrestled from night into the morning and how Jacob (or Israel as he is…
At the place of the skull Jesus was crucified. I am constantly surprised at how much emphasis people put on Jesus on the cross. To me, it is much more powerful to know that Jesus is no longer on the cross and resurrected from the…
When you look at the painting as a whole, you can see the cracked earth of a desert riddled with thorns. At the top left, you can see a man dragging a cross through this unforgiving environment. The image represents the struggle of life that…
