It took senior Jackie Nuxoll two months to complete the eight-panel mural that now faces the Brommer Art Center. She had no particular plan in mind, but she did have a theme, and faith.
"I began painting it without knowing where exactly I was going," Nuxoll said. "I also wasn't sure how long it would take or what I was going to have to do to make it a success. I had never painted anything half the size of one of the panels, let alone eight of them.
"Throughout the first few hours of painting I really prayed a lot."
The mural took its theme from Psalm 18:28: "You light a lamp for me, The Lord, my God, lights up my darkness."
"I wanted to represent who He is and what He has given me, not what I can do," Nuxoll said.
Nuxoll explained that the paint comes to a point of complete darkness and on the other end it is completely light.
"Everything in between is a collision," she said. "Sometimes the dark spaces dominate the light as the light often dominates the dark. But, no matter how much darkness, the light always stands out.
"As long as the collision hasn't ended, there will always be a lamp to light the darkness. A good friend of mine gave me a quote that I used as my inspiration for the mural, 'When His divinity meets our depravity, it's a beautiful collision.' To me, the mural represents the beautiful collision occurring between dark and light; The collision between our depravity and His divinity."