Titled after a line from William Blake’s poem “London”, this piece expresses the faults we carry despite being holy people. The halo is a symbol of the gospel, which says that the heart of God is in all men, including me. The halo is dim, bent, and tilted to symbolize the sin that all men also must face. In Blake’s poem, this line describes the chimney soot of London coating the church steeples. This poem seemed fitting to base a painting on as it was one of the first paintings I completed in New York City, which could just as easily be described by Blake’s poem.