Christ Blessing

This intricately scored tableau reads like a sacred manuscript made visible, where dense linear ornament becomes both architecture and breath, holding the figures in a disciplined, devotional stillness. A single gold halo cuts through the field of red—an authority of light that sanctifies presence while the surrounding patterns insist on the weight of inherited ritual and social order. The clustered bodies on the right, woven from the same relentless mark-making as the borders above, suggest community as tapestry: intimate, compressed, and bound together by tradition as much as by tenderness. In the tension between the austere black line, the earthen reds, and the radiant circle, the work proposes faith not as escape, but as a rigorous form of containment and care.