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From Chicago to Ecuador.
This song with these photos:
Shades of Blue
05 Thursday Apr 2012
Patti
21 Wednesday Mar 2012
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Over the past few years I’ve had the privilege to get to know Patti, a waitress at a 24 hour diner here in Chicago. I’ve been wanting to paint her for some time, and finally have had the opportunity to. Her eyes have seen a lot. This painting is the cover to a book, which is a project that I will post further information on later. In the meantime; here is the painting.
Oil painting on cardboard. Approximately 4X5.5 inches.
Merciful, Faithful
04 Sunday Mar 2012
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Yet another bic pen drawing in my sketchbook.
“Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.”
-Hebrews 7:25-26
Motion
27 Monday Feb 2012
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Over the weekend I began reading some of the writings of Simone Weil, a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political activist. I was fascinated by one of her writings on love in particular because it sounded so similar to the writings of Watchman Nee on the topic of affection. Watchman Nee is a Chinese writer and church leader who was martyred for his faith in 1972. I was intrigued at how astonishingly similar the claims each of them make are, coming from such different life experiences, yet serving the same God. The transcendent work of the spirit is awesome.
A bic pen drawing in my sketchbook.
“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”
- Simone Weil
“Pure love of creatures is not love in God, but love which has passed through God as through fire. Love which detaches itself completely from creatures to ascend to God and comes down again associated with the creative love of God. Thus the two opposites which rend human love are united: to love the beloved being just as he is, and to want to recreate him.”
- Simone Weil
Difference
09 Thursday Feb 2012
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Bic pen sketch.
James 3:17-18 But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
Barriers
06 Monday Feb 2012
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While in India, I lived with seven Swedes, nine Indians, one Congolese, three US citizens, and one Mexican. This is Sachin, one of the Indian students, drawn in bic pen on sketch paper. It was at Sachin’s church, Kondowa, that my group spent two months. We worshiped, listened, preached, shared testimony and were overwhelmingly loved by their churches hospitality to us.
My group: Warmly referred to as the Purple Beaver Companionship Club inside of Kondowa church. From left to right: Ashish (the pastors son), Allen (India), Rosan (Congo), Filip (Sweden), Frida (Sweden), me, and the Sachin’s pastor. 
Thanks for bearing with my India reminiscing. If you would like to read about some of my experiences there, here is my blog from that time.
War Protester
05 Sunday Feb 2012
I took a photo two years ago at one of the Chicago peace marches of a women I met holding a sign protesting the FBI raids on war protesters. This sketch is inspired by the artist Mark Powell, who uses only bic pen to draw mainly intricate, weathered faces. It was a lesson in patience of the hand for me.
And We Will Continue To Build II
30 Monday Jan 2012
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This paintings creation covered a larger time span than the previous few paintings. The most interesting part of making this particular piece was the people I spent time with or met in the process. Beginning in a coffee-house in Elmhurst, traveling to Peoria and painting with a really wonderful family, sitting in my house in Chicago, on the el, outside of Macys and finally sitting with one of the kindest people I’ve met in the city; Kevin from Hawaii, in the all too busy coffee shop at Belmont. Jeramiah 23:24
Was
21 Saturday Jan 2012
Transitions
16 Monday Jan 2012
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Renunciation—is a piercing Virtue—
The letting go
A Presence—for an Expectation—
Not now—
The putting out of Eyes—
Just Sunrise—
Lest Day—
Day’s Great Progenitor—
Outvie
Renunciation—is the Choosing
Against itself—
Itself to justify
Unto itself—
When larger function—
Make that appear—
Smaller—that Covered Vision—Here—
~Emily Dickinson (Renunciation – is a piercing virtue)
