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In Matthew 6:26 we are asked “Look at the birds if the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into the barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value then they?” This verse brought understanding of the landscape and the entire natural world as in the care of God the Father. In turn opening the gate of the heart to a deeper knowledge of God’s limitless grace and love.  The works on paper are painted with acrylic paint, using drawing and cut paper collage. The work is a prayer, a moment in time and a bringing together of a personal/ universal visual language from the landscape, the natural world and the Bible.  

Through contemplative prayer,  the understanding of my faith is deepened within the works on paper. The landscapes painted on the paper are inspired by the landscape of Northern New Mexico on my Grandfather’s ranch. The images of the natural world, which are cut into the painted surface, are harvested from the Bible.  The overlay of the landscape and the natural world through the cut paper creates an implicit ephemeral quality, and an obliteration as well as fragility of the image. My endeavor is to create a labyrinthine of image and pattern which requires stillness in attention to untangle. This parallels to my process of study in contemplative prayer and faith awakening.