The creation of this piece has forever changed my life. 

 

When I began this piece I had no idea what I was getting myself into. My goal was to create something amazing with just a paper and pen, that when viewed it was hard to believe it only created with a black pen. I used a process called stippling which essentially turned my pen in to a little hammer that chiseled out a re-creation of Michelangelo's Pieta. The glossyness of the black background refrences the use of the gold backgrounds in early chirstian art. The gold would reflect the candles in the church making then flicker and come to life. This work has taken me on quite a journey, emotionally, physically, spiritually and took me 1,500 hours to complete most of that in only a few months. I knew I had to put everything I had into this piece to make her break-free from the paper and come alive. The reason I make art is to inspire others and to remind them with hard work and determination the impossible become possible.