“Glory”, 24 x 12” etching using oil-based ink on 30 x 18” print-making paper; January-April 2022

If you would like more photos for scale, let me know.

This is an etching that I made in Jan-Feb with manyyyyy hours. I have made several color iterations of this print in small batches, and I’m honestly still working through this. I still want to take time and develop more colored versions of this.

This is a love letter and prayer to New York City.

“All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, But the word of the Lord endures forever.” I Peter 1:24-25

Everything that we work toward as people, especially in a city like NYC, will fade away as the flowers of the field. Glory, wealth, riches, control, personal victory, adoration, attention, stability, authority, beauty… all fade away like the flowers of the field.

There is, however, comfort in “But the word of the Lord endures forever.” His Word is true, living and active. It is sharper than a double-edged sword. All glory belongs to the Lord—the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and End, the Creator of the Universe, the Potter, Yahweh- “I AM”, Jehovah, Yeshua- “Messiah and Annointed One”, Elohim, Adonai-”Master”, El Shaddai - “the all sufficient-God”, Jehovah Shalom- “The Lord is Peace”, Jehovah Jireh- “The Lord will provide”, Abba- “Father”. Glory was created by the Lord and for the Lord, not for us to hold onto for ourselves. All things point back to God.