Bending to Love As A Twig Bends to the Weight of a Leaf 36 x 36 oil wax and gold on canvas

Bending to Love – Kintsukuroi (Golden Repair)

encaustic/ mixed media
36″ x 36″

Bending to Love is about a love that is eternal, a love that bends to serve others, where past and future are reconciled (T.S. Eliot). Heaven performs the art of kintsukuroi (golden repair) on broken vessels. In the figure’s back is the Hebrew word —hesed — describing the love that is humble, steady, and everlasting — the opposite of proud or stiff-necked. “Jesus bowed his head and breathed his last.” 
This King of Love mends the broken-hearted with gold.