As I look at the centuries of paintings asking, illustrating, and proclaiming on the most basic spiritual questions, I wonder how this sensibility can be expressed in my own context, where an easy and ubiquitous religious framework is no longer the norm. In this effort I am seeking to create a cohesive affective, narrative, and pictoral space expressed through formal gesture and resolving in an ordinary dignity. The perspectival impossibility of the figures sets up a conundrum; the gesture takes us out into the unknown and then back again: to an inside larger than the outside?