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A Sacrifice / The Burghers of Calais
12 x 12 inches oil, wax. gold, and newspaper on panel (black floater frame) A golden port city image was the base for this painting about sacrifice. When the port city of Calais, France was besieged by England, in exchange for lifting the siege, the city sacrificed six of its citizens. Rodin memorialized this historical event in "The Burghers of Calais." The red above their heads indicates this sacrifice and the gold vertical edge suggests a glimpse into the eternal city and the sacrifice of Jesus. -
Ascension - Into Thin Air
12 x 12 inches oil, wax, gold, newspaper on panel This small painting framed in a black floater frame references The Ascension (of Jesus) and compares it to man's attempt at ascension to the heavens -- the Space X launch and the story, "Into Thin Air" of scaling Mt Everest. -
Descent / On the Waters of Time Series
12 x 12 inches Oil and wax and gold on panel This small painting continues my theme of time and eternity centered in the Incarnation, the vessel in human form. The gold ring is a symbol of eternal love and God's covenant to man, the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ. -
The Reaper and the Long Pandemic
16 x 20 ( in matt black shadow box frame) oil and wax and Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal words, "The Long Pandemic" and "Enfolded in Deceptive Design" are visible beneath this painting. Also the images of people dragging their blue masks, like kites, and running in fear, reminded me of the fear and fate of those who were deceived into taking an experimental vaccine to protect themselves from a virus, which was "enfolded in deceptive design." Many have become victims of the Grim Reaper. Thankfully God "well knows the pograms of fools." (Banding poem). -
"We Are Going," They Said, "To the End of the World" II
13 x 17 inches oil and wax and gold on panel This title, taken from Dana Gioia's poem by the same name, is the second painting with this title. My narrative abstract artwork concerns the Biblical theme of pilgrimage and teleological travels. The God who created the world knows our end from our beginning. Our days are in his hands and are progressing towards eternity. -
In The Theater of the Heart
12 x 12 inches oil and wax on panelThe human heart is theater unless redeemed by the God who gives one "a heart of flesh for a heart of stone."
Left to its own devices the human heart is deceitful and dreadfully wicked. In this painting a heart is being monitored on a cell phone. But who can really judge the heart and the thoughts of a man? Only the God who knows our thoughts before there is a word on our tongue. Psalm 139: 4. This painting also brought to mind a panel of judges reviewing a heart. No need to see your personal doctor. The medical jury is having it watched.
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One Who Came on the Waters of Time Series
encaustic wax monotype12 x 162017 A wax monotype is done on a hotplate. I wanted to enhance the transparency and shades of the watery blues on top of an existing oil monoprint, (previously run through a printing press.) The God who created the world by water rescues us from this world of water. "He drew me out of many waters." (Psalm 18:16) -
Banding II
collograph / monoprint 12 x 14 inches
Monoprint refers to an art process that produces a one of a kind image, and the process of adding color/inks to a prepared surface each time you run it through a printing press one time. -
oil and charcoal and mixed media on panel20 x 24 inches (in black 4" frame) This mixed media painting has collage elements in it - a Chinese character (top right), a piece of envelope, and a yellow bird.
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oil and wax 12 x 12 inches in black floater frame The gift is so paradoxical. You must die to live; you must be captured in God's nets to be free. We cannot fathom the love of God before eternity to come to suffer and die to rescue those he came to save. The cross is the glory of God.
