My Footprints Are Always with Jesus, Carrying Me

Description

Title: My Footprints Are Always with Jesus, Carrying Me
Artist: ArNoUx
Date: 2025
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
Style: German Expressionism, Figurative
Category: Small Format Contemporary Art

Curatorial Statement:
In My Footprints Are Always with Jesus, Carrying Me, ArNoUx delivers an intimate dialogue between vulnerability and divine companionship. The abstracted figures, emerging from deep, layered shadows, convey both presence and mystery—one almost spectral in form, the other luminous and alert. The central face, filled with expressive anguish and faint hope, appears transfixed in a space of spiritual tension.

Through textured brushstrokes, ghostly silhouettes, and chromatic contrasts between flesh-toned yellows and spiritual greens, the work evokes the biblical promise of support in times of hardship. The title directly references the well-known “Footprints in the Sand” reflection, interpreted here through the raw lens of German Expressionism.

Rather than illustrating serenity, ArNoUx pushes the viewer into the weight of being carried—emotionally, spiritually, and artistically. The marks of the soul are not just footsteps in sand, but emotional impressions in the psyche.

This small-format canvas becomes a portal to a larger spiritual reality: even in the darkest hours, we ar