Tolle Lege – Take up and Read

Lovers of Wisdom

Lovers of Wisdom

8×10″ pen, marker, and watercolor on paper December 27, 2013 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Plato’s Republic: “He said: Who then are the true philosophers? Those, I said, who are lovers of the vision of truth.”

Moses

Moses

8×10″ pen on paper March 7, 2013

Tolle Lege #1

Tolle Lege #1

8×10″ colored pencil on paper December 24, 2012 Buy original Buy prints A drawing of my best friend’s son reading to my daughter, and part of a larger series on books and reading.

Reading Suspended

8×10″ pen on paper September 28, 2012 Buy prints Part of a series called “Tolle Lege” (“take up and read”) inspired by the conversion scene in from book VIII of Augustine’s Confessions.

Asleep Inside a Book

Asleep Inside a Book