Saint Francis
This painting depicts Saint Francis at the ultimate height of ecstasy—a state of such complete immersion in the divine that he dissolves entirely into the landscape. Unlike its companion piece, Saint Francis in Ecstasy, where the saint is symbolically depicted as a hut, with the luminous sky representing his ecstatic state, here that experience has gone a step further. Saint Francis is no longer symbolized by a form or structure; he is the luminous sky, the mountain, the earth, the air. He has become indistinguishable from the world around him.
Oil on canvas
60 × 88 inches
2024-2025
*Currently on exhibit and available after September 30, 2025
This painting depicts Saint Francis at the ultimate height of ecstasy—a state of such complete immersion in the divine that he dissolves entirely into the landscape. Unlike its companion piece, Saint Francis in Ecstasy, where the saint is symbolically depicted as a hut, with the luminous sky representing his ecstatic state, here that experience has gone a step further. Saint Francis is no longer symbolized by a form or structure; he is the luminous sky, the mountain, the earth, the air. He has become indistinguishable from the world around him.
Oil on canvas
60 × 88 inches
2024-2025
*Currently on exhibit and available after September 30, 2025
This painting depicts Saint Francis at the ultimate height of ecstasy—a state of such complete immersion in the divine that he dissolves entirely into the landscape. Unlike its companion piece, Saint Francis in Ecstasy, where the saint is symbolically depicted as a hut, with the luminous sky representing his ecstatic state, here that experience has gone a step further. Saint Francis is no longer symbolized by a form or structure; he is the luminous sky, the mountain, the earth, the air. He has become indistinguishable from the world around him.
Oil on canvas
60 × 88 inches
2024-2025
*Currently on exhibit and available after September 30, 2025