New Icon Drop - the Road to Emmaus

Happy Easter!

We are celebrating with a new icon available for you all - The Road to Emmaus!

Created for a Youth Ministry attached to St. Anthony’s Foundation, San Francisco (which we worked with in 2022 to create another large piece and community mural!), the goal for this image was for Volunteer teens to see themselves as one of the two on the Road, accompanying Jesus in the face of those they accompany at St. Anthony and on their city streets.

Colors, poses, and background imagery come from traditional icons of this scene. Unlike many of our other icons, there are a few hints of a background, and these tower shapes come straight from traditional iconography (the wild angles also reminiscent of winding San Francisco streets). Clopas is pictured, as well as the unnamed other saint, who, by being left unnamed, may have been an attempt by the writer to have the reader picture themselves in the story. Because of this, it is ambiguous as to which person is which, in the hopes that the viewer can identify with whoever they most resemble.

Read more about it here.