The Prints We Leave: The Cost of Unmeasured Authority…

These prints were made from the boots I wore during my Army deployment to Afghanistan.
The weight of those boots once meant real authority—the power to protect, but also the power to harm.
In these images, each tread remembers that authority is never neutral. Every step either guards or grinds, restores or erases.
My book uses these boot prints to “trample” words like voice, truth, value, dignity, and identity—not to glorify harm, but to expose it.
When authority loses its calling to serve, it does not merely err; it crushes the very things it was entrusted to uphold.
Trampled Under Boot is a reminder that Christ‑shaped authority walks differently: it carries weight, but it refuses to crush the people it is called to serve.