I wrote about the marvelous Graffiti Artist Jesus Saves a few years ago, and it seemed a good time to write an update because he's been creating so many new and wonderful things. He always does, because he lives and breathes art and creativity, but just recently I've been seeing some new videos on his Instagram page that are like nothing I've seen of his before. Looking back in time to the 1930's these videos remember a time in New York that was so different from the world of today, and he takes us there with his costumes of suits and hats and cigars and photographs that dissolve in the video frames to show us what life used to be like. He's also been making art on Subway maps, something that I'm very fond of seeing. New York City subway maps are art in and of themselves, especially if you've ever lived in New York and ridden the subway as much as those of us who love the city do. The thought that every picture tells a story definitely defines the subway system maps, and with the art of Jesus Saves over them they become something truly iconic.
When I first met Jesus Saves I was newly born again and he was attending the church on the lower east side where I found myself one June afternoon in 2006. He has a story to tell that he willingly tells because it is the story of what God can do in a life. Every one of us has our stories, of the miraculous saved by something beyond our understanding times, and when God is the one who we recognize as being the savior the stories and our lives become not just miraculous but filled with grace. I will leave Jesus Saves to tell his own story because it is his own to tell, but look him up and you'll understand why this born and bred New Yorker who is as tough as they come can be kind and loving and forgiving even as he travels through the subways and boroughs and around the world dealing with all kinds of people as he tags and creates murals and canvases with the art of Jesus Saves.
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