Potrait of Icons, Trapped Flour Drawings,
                        Unbleached flour, acrylic medium, lightbox, ac adaptors, wood, paint
                        42” x 58” x 2.5”

Portrait of Icons draws on the significant reputation between light and icons in historical religious western painting and architecture. Such art metaphorically depicted the heavenly as light. Unbleached flour is used as a drawing medium for its opacity and western-biblical reference to bread and the body. Two portraits of mega-church preachers Rick Warren and Joel Osteen are cradled on either arm of a cross whose upper arm is absent.  The drawings are rendered in loose flour, then "trapped" in acrylic. Once electrically lit from behind by a light box built into its frame, the opacity of the flour creates illuminated portraits of these men, who simultaneously represent as the arm of religion and as its icon(s).