[Y]ou yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
(I Peter 2:5)

Oh Stephen! What do you see?
I scan your eyes’ trajectory
But all I find are clouds and sky,
Which cannot vengeance rectify.
Oh Stephen! What do you see?

Oh Stephen! I want to see!
Why do my eyes see differently?
Are we not all of flesh the same?
Yet, you will bless when others blame.

These are some working pages from a sketchbook, meditations on the saints, what they faced, and the intersection of body and soul.

Excuses on that Day, or “Pray that you may stand!”

“I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, and keep the charge of the Lord your God…”
“我 现 在 要 走 世 人 必 走 的 路 。 所 以 ， 你 当 刚 强 ， 作 大 丈 夫 ，
遵 守 耶 和 华 ― 你 　 神 所 吩 咐 的 ”

These drawings are in memory of last year’s travels in Guizhou. This book was finished in January of 2010, but recently visited again…. They are ink, watercolor and paper on recycled paper.