This print is part of a series in which I created imaginative narratives, religious artifacts, and characters using my family’s history and religious culture as a reference point. The print is a reproduction of an oil painting I made in 2016. Although based on real subject matter, I made the oil painting from imagination. After making the painting, I then constructed a life-size model, using the painting as reference. Finally, I photographed the painting and made high quality art prints of the painted work. Artifacts were used by those who came before for interpreting and recording revelation from God. The artifacts we wear, use, or accumulate are powerful, outward indications of our inner values, commitments, beliefs, and priorities.
