Three, 2025
The work is about a story of a man who served God. God asked the man to sacrifice his son as an offering to test his faith. The man obeyed and went to the mountain with two servants and his son. When they reached the place, the man told his servants to wait while they go up worship the Lord and come back down together. On the way up, the son wondered and asked his father where the sacrifice for the offering was. The man answered that God Himself would provide the sacrifice and yet at that moment, he had nothing but fire and wood. Still, he walked in trust, believing in God who had always shown mercy and faithfulness toward him.
This story blessed me deeply during a season of life when nothing seemed certain, when I saw only shut doors and heard only rejected silences. It fixed my eyes on the character of God. And I hope this artwork, and the animation, strengthen the faith of those who put their trust in the Lord of lords.
Perhaps what we lack is not health or wealth, but faith. And the Scripture says,
Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness. (Genesis 15:6)
A man, a son, the two went up. And there, Three, God, was present among them. Our God is a faithful God. He is trustworthy. And yes, He provides.
(While I was working on this piece, my wife got pregnant. And we became Three!)
Three, 2025
The work is about a story of a man who served God. God asked the man to sacrifice his son as an offering to test his faith. The man obeyed and went to the mountain with two servants and his son. When they reached the place, the man told his servants to wait while they go up worship the Lord and come back down together. On the way up, the son wondered and asked his father where the sacrifice for the offering was. The man answered that God Himself would provide the sacrifice and yet at that moment, he had nothing but fire and wood. Still, he walked in trust, believing in God who had always shown mercy and faithfulness toward him.
This story blessed me deeply during a season of life when nothing seemed certain, when I saw only shut doors and heard only rejected silences. It fixed my eyes on the character of God. And I hope this artwork, and the animation, strengthen the faith of those who put their trust in the Lord of lords.
Perhaps what we lack is not health or wealth, but faith. And the Scripture says,
Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness. (Genesis 15:6)
A man, a son, the two went up. And there, Three, God, was present among them. Our God is a faithful God. He is trustworthy. And yes, He provides.
(While I was working on this piece, my wife got pregnant. And we became Three!)
Watch frame-by-frame animation of Three (2025)
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Genesis 22:6-8
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said,
"but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
Abraham answered,
“God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.”
And the two of them went on together.
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When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
“Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
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Work in progress (Three, 2025)
Work in progress (Three, 2025)
Work in progress (Three, 2025)
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Romans 4:1-5
What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, discovered in this matter? If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God. What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.
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Deuteronomy 10:12-22
And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it. Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today. Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer. For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt. Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name. He is the one you praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes. Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
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Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
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Genesis 22:6-8
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said,
"but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
Abraham answered,
“God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.”
And the two of them went on together.
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When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
“Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
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Work in progress (Three, 2025)
Work in progress (Three, 2025)
Work in progress (Three, 2025)
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Romans 4:1-5
What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, discovered in this matter? If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God. What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.
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Deuteronomy 10:12-22
And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it. Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today. Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer. For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt. Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name. He is the one you praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes. Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
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Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
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