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Commissioned by Fr. Tom Fehr and Frank Prudent in loving memory of his parents William and Ellen for the Mariners Chapel at Grace Episcopal Church in Pomeroy, Ohio

Statement given at the Blessing of the Icon on June 22nd, 2014.
“Harlan Hubbard, a painter and naturalist, along with his partner Anna, spent 48 years living right on the banks of the Ohio River. When another local river town church asked him to paint a mural of the Jordan River above their baptismal, he instead painted a picture of their own Ohio River.
I think Harlan was telling this small church, and the Church at large, that this is their sacred river. He was saying that as beautiful as the Jordan river and the Holy Land is, and as important its historical significance is for us and many religions, if flying the several thousand mile journey, or seeking out these images and artifacts, are the only tangible signs that make us feel the closest we could possibly be to Jesus, then we are missing the point....

I started painting icons in 2011 while I was a member of the Common Friars from 2009-2013. Our collective work was about being more connected: to ourselves, each other, our surrounding community and the land. This manifested itself as a place called “The Good Earth Farm” where we held weekly services and meals, and grew produce for our community and local food pantries. My friend, and fellow farmer, Paul often posed the question, “how do we become people who, in Jesus’s words, ‘consider the lilies of the field’? This became the focus of my first attempt at an icon entitled: “Christ: Consider the Lilies.” Iconography has since become a practice of more considerations: of color and light, of brush stroke and form,...