{"product_id":"faith-2006-oil-on-canvas-by-stacy-stewart-smith","title":"Faith, 2006 Oil on Canvas by Stacy Stewart Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFaith\u003c\/em\u003e begins with two hands that cannot quite reach each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 50\" × 34\", this oil on canvas is intimate in scale but vast in implication. Against a luminous ground — built up through layers of oil washes, its inner glow kindled by a technique borrowed from Ingres, who primed his canvases in cadmium red — two arms extend toward one another across an impossible distance. One reaches down. One reaches up. They are deliberately mismatched in scale, and that imbalance is the painting’s entire argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe background dissolves into the blurred geometry of the Eiffel Tower, glimpsed from a moving elevator — iron and light rendered through daubs of paint and wisp washes, hovering between impressionism and pure abstraction. The figurative arms emerge from this atmosphere like a thought becoming certain: near-realistic, yet drawn rather than merely painted, as if the act of reaching itself is still being decided.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is something of Michelangelo’s \u003cem\u003eCreation\u003c\/em\u003e in the composition — that charged space between fingertips — but Smith’s intention is his own. This is not the moment of divine touch. This is the moment before it. The moment when the distance seems absolute, when logic offers nothing, and the only available movement is trust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCan the small hand lift a large one? Are today’s problems bigger than the power of the Almighty?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFaith\u003c\/em\u003e is the first completed work of the \u003cem\u003eResurrection\u003c\/em\u003e series, painted across the summer of 2006 and finished in November of that year. It is the painting that made everything that followed possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOil on Canvas · 50\" × 34\" · 2006\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne-of-a-kind original. Shipping insurance is strongly recommended; please add it to your purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stacy Stewart Smith Enterprises, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59120687415377,"sku":"SSS-FAITHOP-ORIG","price":56000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0998\/9311\/7009\/files\/8.Faith.jpg?v=1771687105","url":"https:\/\/stacystewartsmith.com\/ja\/products\/faith-2006-oil-on-canvas-by-stacy-stewart-smith","provider":"Stacy Stewart Smith","version":"1.0","type":"link"}