This one was one of my favorite pieces for a long time. I created it in 2011 my Sophomore year and MICA and it was one of the more meaningful pieces for me because it combined everything I had been practicing and trying to master (with pen ink and linework) but it was also a piece that meant a great deal to me spiritually as well. It speaks about a connection about what it means to seek God and conversely have God seeking you. The Bible talks a lot about the concept of election and being chosen, hand picked by God to inherit eternal life as well as a glorious inheritance laid up for his people in Heaven (not because of favoritism or because anyone is better than anyone else) but rather he makes his appeal to all people and yet calls to us individually. I know I felt this and went after it in my life (best decision ever) and so made work about it.

Although I was in a much better place in my life when I made this, I was still thirsty and still needed healing to be done on a personal level. I also saw what life was like for others and realized they were dead and thirsty too. True there is a lot of pain there, but also a lot of hope on the part of the central character and also compassion, because no one makes that light shine and dark places, it just does because it cares for people, it hears them and most of all answers them. I guess that's why I love it so much.