Spiritual Exercises
Saint Stephen's Gallery
Rome, Italy
2012

For Estelle

Bone Box

Turn (Metanoia)

Man of Sorrows

Exercitia Spiritualia

 

A series of artwork based on the Spiritual Exercises written by St. Ignatius of Loyola in 1522-24. Observational drawings, paintings, illuminated X-rays and a handmade journal inspired by daily contemplation and religious imagery in Roman churches, reliquaries, and catacombs.

Charcoal, graphite, acrylic paint, oil pastel on paper, x-rays, lights, gold leaf, collages and ink drawings.