Kid City: Milwaukee-esque Mural
Kid City is a 4-panel large-scale digital mural, installed as wallpaper, designed for the Kids section of Eastbrook Academy & Eastbrook Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; completed in 2021.
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ICC Logo, Branding & Window Display
Logo update, branding refresh, and large-scale vinyl window installation for the International Community Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2020). Wrapping around the building, each window panel displays the word “Welcome” in a different language, in front of the cityscape representing that language. All languages are familiar to the refugee community on the south side of Milwaukee.
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Holy Week 2020
Staging and print design for Holy Week, 2020. Iconic images from Caravaggio and Van Dyke are paired with modern, simple iconography for Ash Wednesday (heart), Palm Sunday (palm), Maundy Thursday (droplet), and Good Friday (cross). Frosted plexi is under/backlit in front of large printouts of these iconic images of Jesus. For Eastbrook Church, 2020.
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King of Kings and Lord of Lords
This digital art piece was created for a sermon series at Eastbrook Church based on Revelation 17:14; 19:16. After reading all of the passages for this name of Jesus, I found myself really drawn to the image of the conquering, victorious Jesus in Revelation: the King of kings and Lord of lords. Scripture describes Jesus with such rich imagery: He rides a white horse, His eyes are like blazing fire, He wears many crowns, He wears a robe dipped with a blood, He has a tattoo on His thigh. All of these descriptions in Revelation 19 were really overwhelming for me: to think that Jesus is both the gentle Lamb of God and also this conquering, strong, tattooed Victor who is ready to wage war. I am honestly more familiar with Jesus as the gentle Lamb than I am with this brazen warrior. I felt really inspired to demonstrate the drama and strength and power of Jesus in Revelation 19. Stylistically, I wanted to try a new style of digital art for me, where I would reproduce an image in an impressionistic style, where it is blurry up close, but makes sense from far away. I thought that style would work for the book of Revelation, because we don’t have the benefit […]
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Graven Process Video
Collaborative Art project for Eastbrook Church, Ash Wednesday 2018. “Before the throne of God above I have a strong and perfect plea. A great high priest whose name is Love Who ever lives and pleads for me. My name is graven on His hands, My name is written on His heart. I know that while in Heaven He stands No tongue can bid me thence depart.”
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Graven
“Before the throne of God above I have a strong and perfect plea. A great high priest whose name is Love Who ever lives and pleads for me. My name is graven on His hands, My name is written on His heart. I know that while in Heaven He stands No tongue can bid me thence depart.”
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Dirt
God formed us out of the dirt (Genesis 3:19). God got dirty when He took on flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14). He was born into the dirt of this world (Luke 2:7). For 30 years, Jesus did a dirty job, working as a carpenter. (Mark 6:3), Jesus wrote in the dirt (John 8:6), and he used dirt to heal (John 9:6). But so often, we try to create distance from our dirt. We create distance from others’ dirt. We avoid naming our own dirt. We definitely avoid the dirt of other people. Jesus isn’t afraid of your dirt. He takes our literal dirt upon Himself (2 Corinthians 5:21) and He takes our spiritual dirt (sin, Luke 10:11) on Himself on the Cross. Jesus got dirty so that we, made of dirt, filthy as we are, can be clean dirt. When we give him our dirt, he touches it, sanctifies it, and grows something beautiful from it. On Ash Wednesday, the people of Eastbrook Church gathered together to create something beautiful out of our dirt, which so easily entangles us. We used cups to scoop up either dirt, gravel, or sand and poured them out before taking communion. The final result is something beautiful that reflects not only our own […]
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