Christ is the principal figure as the Pantocrator, “the One who shows us the Way”. His image is superimposed on a map of the world of white colorless landmasses. I wanted the transparent continents to be ghost-like or memory from another time. The bloodlines extend out in the two principal directions from the continent of North America. These deep red lines are the Air traffic routes and shipping lanes overused for our human survival. Our human waste and consumption of every imaginable electronic machine to the simple sand mined from the sea are in peril. The cost to our planet is enormous as we deplete its resources and damage its waterways with transport and shipping. On Holy Ground is a collection of contemporary icons.