Watercolor and Ink
16"x24"
“There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.“ John 15:13
This painting is a collaborative work with dozens of friends and strangers to write the phrase I love you in the native languages spoken on my college campus. I ended up with sixty-seven languages. The full story of 'No Greater Love' can be read here.
The languages included are: Afrikaans, American Sign Language, Arabic, Bijabo, Burmese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, German, Greek (koine), Greek (modern), Gujarati, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Ilakano, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyal, Kriol, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Luganda, Malay, Mandarin, Melpa, Mongolian, Nakui, Nepali, Papua New Guinean Pidgin (three versions), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Runyankore, Russian, Samoan, Sesotho, Slovak, Sorimi, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagali, Tagalog, Tamil, Tedim, Thai, Tohono O’odham, Tongan, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu.
