{"product_id":"study-for-faith-2006-oil-on-mta-metrocard-by-stacy-stewart-smith","title":"Study for Faith, 2006 Oil on NYC Metrocard by Stacy Stewart Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore \u003cem\u003eFaith\u003c\/em\u003e could exist at 50\" × 34\", it had to exist at 2.125\" × 3.375\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis oil study — painted on a New York City MTA MetroCard — is where the \u003cem\u003eResurrection\u003c\/em\u003e series began to take shape. In the spring of 2006, working in his Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn studio, Smith used the humble surface of a transit card to work through the composition that would become \u003cem\u003eFaith\u003c\/em\u003e, the first completed painting of the series. Everything that would later unfold across a large canvas was first held in the palm of a hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe image traces back to a rain-soaked afternoon in Paris, 2005. The Eiffel Tower had closed due to flooding — streets near the landmark submerged, cars drifting — and Smith waited, then returned on instinct. His hunch was rewarded: the tower reopened, and he was among the first in line. From the moving elevator, he photographed the structure through rain-streaked glass, the iron lattice blurring and burning in the distant sun. That quality of movement, of beauty glimpsed through obstruction, became the visual language of the entire \u003cem\u003eResurrection\u003c\/em\u003e series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis study is the first mark of that vision — intimate, immediate, irreplaceable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExhibited at the Stacy Stewart Smith Gallery circa 2009 and featured on the Eric Adams Show that same year, it is a rare artifact: the seed of a body of work, small enough to hold, large enough to contain a calling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOil on NYC MTA MetroCard · 2.125\" × 3.375\" · 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":59123044188241,"sku":"SSS-S4FAITHMCOP-ORIG","price":730.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0998\/9311\/7009\/files\/9.Faith_study.jpg?v=1771723950","url":"https:\/\/stacystewartsmith.com\/products\/study-for-faith-2006-oil-on-mta-metrocard-by-stacy-stewart-smith","provider":"Stacy Stewart Smith","version":"1.0","type":"link"}