This painting from early 1980s may seem like a random surrealist image, but it is about me talking to Jesus. I’m fascinated by the idea if Jesus as [spiritual] food and my imagery often depicts this in a very personal way. At the time I was living on the Gulf of Mexico so fish imagery for me was about food.
Another image exploring idea of Jesus as spiritual food, this one from early 1990s and dealing with how Jesus’ crucifixion and wounds nourish us.
When a spiritual image preoccupies me, like the image of the three women at the foot of the cross, I often pray with the image and new images start to appear in my mind. Here the image of the three women capturing the blood of Christ in a chalice at the foot of the cross transformed into them blessing a journey into the unknown with this blood—-also references the Passover image of the blood on the Jewish peoples’ door lintels.
A subject of deep meaning for me is the three women who stayed steadfastly at the foot of the cross. The chalice capturing Jesus’ blood seems to me most appropriately held in the hands of these women. This also from early 1990s.
This pastel piece was done around 1986 when I was living in a Benedictine convent in Mexico City, working as their organ accompanist for all of their liturgical worship. I was interested in the female orante figures in the Roman catacombs. What continues to puzzle me about this image is how somber all three women look in the work of prayer, in spite of the joyful nature of their surroundings.
A piece from early 1990s about Elijah’s burnout and wanting to give up on the work God had called him to do. He is fed and encouraged by an angel.
Ezekiel 36:25. I will pour clean water over you.
