ADVENT — Through The Needle’s Eye The Rich Man Came

acrylic/oil / gold on torn canvas on panel
48 x 48 inches
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My first ADVENT painting (1993)  shown in the Asheville Art Museum Christmas Invitational,  published and shown in exhibits, then purchased, IS NOW available for resale. The owner, now a widow, would like it to see it placed in an important collection. Let me know if you are interested,
Inspired by the poem ADVENT.

Through the needle’s eye
the rich man came
squeezing through stars of razor light
that pared his body down to thread.
Gravity crushed his heart’s chime and
his breath that breathed out worlds
now flattened as fire
between walls.
The impossible slit
stripped him,
admitting him
to stitch the human breach.

–inspired by the poem, Advent by Suzanne Rhodes, poet Laureate of Arkansas.