Treasure in Jars of Clay I Drawing

My art practice is a way for me to connect with the divine and to dwell in sacred space-time. The vestige of this dwelling, that is, the artwork, naturally becomes indexical of the divine body. Since my affiliation is with the Christian faith, I experience this divine union through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The tangible vocabulary that I employ to represent that which is beyond representation has three sources: the Holy Scriptures; a numinous encounter I had with the risen Christ in 2015; and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit that I underwent in 2024. I work with the awareness that the attempt to represent the Divine in poetic language (visual or otherwise) is futile. However, I do not claim that my artworks contain a fraction of the Divine, for claiming so would be equivalent to idolatry, and, thus, in violation of the first commandment. I don’t see my artworks as idols, but as icons. Where an idol claims to contain divine attribute(s), an icon is only indexical of the Divine, that is, it itself is not divine, but only points to the Divine. And, in doing so, it claims the impossibility of presenting that which is beyond presentation.