13 May 2025
I've finished Kingdom tub (8x10 inches, oil on panel). Began as a figure in bed, ended up rotating ninety degrees counter clockwise to find the figure's head in the bottom corner, then the bed became a bath and water appeared again. I keep coming back to water and water keeps coming back to me.
I think it's because lately I can't stop watching videos of DIY baptisms—in hotel tubs, local rivers, inflatable pools. There's something so fantastic about people choosing to transform an ordinary domestic or familiar space into a channel for the divine and becoming illuminated by a newfound sense of rebirth or belonging after dunking themselves in the stuff they're made of. We are really all searching for the same thing.