Pure as the Driven Snow

8x10 inches

Acrylic, Paper, Pencil, Canvas Board

Traditional-style Catholic prayer hands, wrapped in rosary beads, drawn in tracing paper and pencil, adhered to a textured acrylic painting of a snowy mountainside.

I love rocky mountain sides blanketed in snow. My brother fell off of a mountain once, tumbled 2,000 feet below and landed in a huge pile of snow. If not for the snow, he would have died. The snow later almost killed him and threatened to take his fingers and toes as he lived through a blizzard overnight after the fall, before limping out of the valley to the rescuers who were looking for him on the other side of the mountain. Mountains and snow are all at once beautiful and terrible, same as the lives we live. We pray for grace that we might have the strength to hold both truths at once.