The Framework of Life is part of my Prayers for the World Series. This piece was largely inspired by my reading of the book Erosions : Essays on Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams. The author points out that all life on earth comes from and returns to the earth. Appropriately, this piece is painted with a paint made from soil collected and processed in a French quarry.

It has been sanded, but I have left the altitudinal textures of the original globe. The piece was finished with a thin acrylic varnish. It measures 11” x 11” x 17” tall.