Laudato si Mural Print

Inspired by Saint Francis of Assisi’s canticle LAUDATO SI, where we are reminded that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life, and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. This reverie depicts a harmonious abode that serves as a bridge among all living creatures. Of course, this environment is our precious home, and it is our task to keep this harmony alive. This work does not only celebrate nature and life, but also resonates with deep meanings. Here, I ask the viewer to direct his attention inward, in a contemplative way to explore the spiritual and the temporal, and the relationship between them, in a thought-provoking way. Practically everyone feels connected to a place of nostalgic or sweet memories of some happy time in the past to which one returns in one’s mind, picking particular moments to cherish. And this, in fact served as the objective when I embarked on painting such a large and unusual canvas. In a way, this rural setting and peasant milieu crafted some of the imagery, a symbolism of idyll home that can be revisited whenever one feels the urge to even virtually.