A sweeping oil on canvas by David Kim Whittaker, this work captures a dramatic journey from shadow into light, as forms emerge and surge upward toward luminous steeples bathed in golden radiance. The composition conveys a powerful sense of spiritual and emotional ascent, with rich, layered brushwork creating depth within the surrounding darkness. Housed in the artist's own frame, the work exists as a fully realized, unified object — the framing itself an intentional extension of the painting's expressive vision.