I’m honored to have been invited to be featured alongside the many talented artists for Harvard University’s 2025 “100 Years of Rudolf Steiner” conference. My piece below is titled, “Deliverance” (20”x24” oil on canvas).

This oil painting marks my inaugural work in the medium and coincides with my recent reception into the Catholic Church, following a journey from non-denominational Protestantism. Drawn to Catholicism through its unbroken historic continuity, the profound reverence of the Eucharistic liturgy, and crucially, its unflinching affirmation of the reality of the spiritual realm, I sought to express these convictions on canvas. The piece thus reflects both a personal spiritual reorientation and a renewed acknowledgment of spiritual realities. I welcome you to follow along on Instagram as I continue my artistic journey: @ch.as.en.

My hope for this piece is for it to vividly depict the Archangel Michael in triumphant combat with adversarial spiritual forces, symbolized by a demon pierced by a radiant cross-spear. God’s divine light pierces through brooding storm clouds, illuminating the scene, while a heraldic angel on a white steed sounds the trumpet, announcing the turning point of victory.

The work portrays the eternal battle between forces of light and darkness, with St. Michael confronting demonic opposition in their ongoing influence upon humanity. My intention is to evoke a profound sense of hope grounded in the Mystery of Golgotha: Christ’s decisive victory over sin and death through His Passion, Death, and Resurrection on the Cross, which pours forth grace for the ongoing conversion and sanctification of human hearts and souls. Though the battle against the powers of evil continues in the spiritual realm and within humanity until the end of time, this victory assures the ultimate triumph of good at Christ’s glorious and visible Second Coming, when He will return as Judge and King to banish darkness forever, offering unshakeable assurance amid contemporary trials.

“For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.”

1 Thessalonians 4:16 (NABRE)