Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
George Makary
If You Will, You Can Become All Flame
Painting
2020
Egg tempera on wood
5"x5"
"Abba Lot went to Abba Joseph and said to him, “Abba, as far as I can I recite my canons, I fast a little, I pray and meditate, I live in peace and as far as I can, I purify my thoughts. What else can I do?” Then the old man stood up and stretched his hands towards heaven. His fingers became like ten lamps of fire and he said to him, “If you will, you can become all flame.”— From “The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Work by
George Makary
Painting, Iconography
“Alternating between the secular and religious, the earthly and the divine, I aim to weave two threads through a single tapestry, a conduit to the Copt unlocking the mysteries of who they are and how...” [More]