'Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe'
Artist Ian Stone says he was inspired by Caravaggio's Doubting Thomas, a painting of the apostle who refuses to believe Jesus has returned from the dead until the risen Christ personally invites him to insert his hand into the spear wound in his side. The doubter in Stone's 2023 painting seems to be accepting a trans person's identity.
"The realism I work in is as real as trans people have always been," Stone says, "and we will look back at this discrimination and bigotry in the same shameful way we have with any other human rights issue."

























