Imago Dei Latores (unfinished)

Artist Statement “Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’” — Matthew 25:40–45 Imago forms part of the Imago Dei Latores series, which asks what it means to bear the image of God in lived experience rather than profession. The work is conceived as both mirror and rebuke, pressing against the artist’s own failings in mercy, compassion, and sacrifice. The hogtied lamb, its halo faint yet insistent, recalls Zurbarán’s Agnus Dei but is displaced onto an indeterminate ground. Here the lamb is not only Christ, the sacrificed, but also the least—the overlooked, the bound, the silenced. Its presence interrogates how a life claimed as Christian measures itself against the call to self-giving. The title Imago lingers in tension. Meaning “likeness” or “mental image,” it evokes the theological phrase Imago Dei—the image of God—yet remains deliberately incomplete. What, or whom, does this lamb mirror? The viewer is asked to decide whether it reflects Christ, the least of these, or their own likeness staring back.