writings

acrylic on canvas

4 x 5 feet

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Jesus Making Wine from His Blood, 2024

Saint Elijah Breaking the Sky, 2025

Saint John and Jesus as Babies, 2025

Archangels Michael and Gabriel, 2025

"I am the Bread which came down from Heaven", 2025

Jesus Raising, 2025

In Nicula, Transylvania, every middle of August a pilgrimage takes place at the oldest monastery around. Almost a quarter of million people walk from all parts of the country, rain or shine. People make this trip at least once in their lifetime, at times barefoot, at times singing and holding up godly flags, reaching towards a painted icon on glass that once teared up and healed people with its tears. In front of my family house on the main road towards the monastery, we placed faces painted on glass icons resembling religious saints as taught by my grand grandfather. Among these icons, some were mine, placed on the crude grass. They showed faces on connected arms and legs together forming a body, saintly bodies. They were free to take. Every year, growing up, I had to make more and more.

Here I re-create those subliminal images into large works, each carrying a story significant to who I am as a person today. The title for this project is “writings,” in line with the old belief that one cannot paint the word of God, only write it again.