Lewis Carroll’s Alice

​Can you find all the circles in the painting?

Part of my “Wilderness Walk” series, York Minster explores circles as metaphors for life’s repetitive patterns. Can you spot them in the painting? Like Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories—brimming with thimbles, mirrors, and rabbit holes—circles reflect our struggles, echoing Paul’s lament in Romans 7:15 about doing what we shouldn’t. Yet, Paul finds hope in Christ’s sacrifice (Romans 7:24), promising transformation (1 Corinthians 15:52). My painting’s wooden bell tower, simple and cyclical, contrasts with York Minster’s Gothic grandeur—its 76-foot “Seven Sisters” window and 10.8-ton “Big Peter” bell. So too, our lives, trapped in circular wanderings, will be transformed through faith into eternal structures of stone and stained glass, singing praise forever. This work invites you to reflect: what circles shape your wilderness walk, and what transformation awaits?