Sancta is an original work in gold leaf on paper, 16 × 20 × 1 inches.
The larger figure's head inclines downward, a circular halo arcing across the upper composition and drawing the eye toward the smaller form nestled below. The gold is not flat: it builds in granular stippling and dragged lines, the surface carrying weight as if the image had to be pressed into being rather than drawn.
Madonna-and-Child iconography is among the oldest repeating structures in Western art, a form so familiar it risks becoming invisible. Here the gold refuses that invisibility. The same material Byzantine tradition used to signal the divine behind the figure becomes the figure itself, collapsing the distance between the sacred and the embodied. Tenderness and transcendence are made of one substance, inseparable from each other.
One-of-a-kind original. Gold leaf on paper. 16 × 20 × 1 inches.
A work that holds one of devotional art's oldest gestures in a form singular and unrepeatable.
