As part of the Bead Works Series , these small paintings created with beads on velvet surfaces explored the relationship of the celebrity as religious icon. Using film as the vehicle, the works include: Charleton Heston as Moses at the parting of the Red Sea, in The Ten Commandments; Mila Jovovich as Joan of Arc, in The Messenger and Charleton Heston as Michaelangelo and Rex Harrison as the Pope in The Agony & The Ecstacy.