This piece is about the symbolism between the Ark of the Covenants in the Old and New Testaments. Most people are familiar with the Old Testament version because of the Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Even though the movie does a great depiction of the ark, no one knows exactly what it looked like since it's been lost to antiquity. However, there is an exceedingly detailed description in the book of Exodus that helps us to imagine it. The ark was created in order to house 3 important objects to Judaism:

   This painting is probably one of my favorites. It's one of the few that I can honestly say that there's nothing else I could, in fact, should, add to the panel. It wasn't a smooth sailing to the end result but everything did seem to work out quite well.

The top question I get ​about this painting is: 

   This print, like Make a Mess, was inspired by Corita Kent. She was a nun who combined pop art with social activism and if that's not the coolest sentence you've ever read then I don't know what to say.
 After my BFA midway show, one of my professors tasked my classmates and myself to try out a new art process, something completely different than what we were used to. I started to research modern Catholic artists that weren't painters, drawers, or had figures in their work, and that's when I stumbled upon Corita Kent.