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"Gregor Mendel: Patience and Revelation", acrylic on gesso board, Bishop Maxim, 2025
This portrait captures Gregor Mendel—Augustinian monk and father of modern genetics—as a figure of attentiveness. His gaze is focused, his posture composed, embodying the quiet patience of scientific observation and the contemplative depth of monastic life. Mendel is depicted not amid dramatic discovery, but in the sacred act of listening—listening to nature, reason, and the whisper of revelation that binds faith and inquiry. The painting bridges the cloister and the laboratory, the sacred and the empirical. Here, science is not severed from belief but illuminated by it. Behind him, violet and deep red hues evoke the ambiance of his religious vocation and the mystery of the unknown he sought to understand. Light gently touches his face, suggesting that truth—like grace often comes quietly to those who wait and watch with reverence.