I was not raised religiously. Until the age of nine, I did not even know that religion existed, until my best friend introduced me to it. Not that I converted at the time; that would probably have required a bit more guidance, but I did come to understand why we attended different schools.

As an adult, I now see religion as a kind of manual for a way of living together in a community that largely works. I deliberately use the word manual rather than a set of rules or commandments, because the way details are interpreted and applied has always been shaped by the time in which we live. And perhaps in the last century, adaptations to the broader framework have occurred faster than ever before

This is my eighth pixel painting, and the series works best with images that are deeply embedded in our collective memory, such as the pixel paintings of Frida Kahlo and the Beatles that some of you may have seen. Perhaps this painting should really have been the first, but then again, Jesus has always had to contend with a wide range of competing figures. Here he appears as the eighth, rendered in pixels, illustrating how the details of a long-standing, larger story continue to adapt to modern times.