12 x 12 inches
oil and wax and papers
(framed in black plein-air frame)
A palimpsest is an object or papers having diverse layers visible beneath the surface. My work process is a type of palimpsest. You can see images and text beneath the surface layer.
"We see through a glass dimly, but then face to face." This is comforting in world of hidden truth and glory.
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7 x 7 inches (framed in a gold) watercolor, graphite, text transferThe Babe of Bethlehem, "the WORD made flesh"would come to redeem mankind whose Towers of Babel would attempt to reach God on his own terms.
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Living Word II / Babel Series
16 x 23 inches monotype on cotton rag paper This monotype is a diptych. It is divided into light and dark, the struggle between God and Babel (Baal-God). -
Living Word I /Global City Babel Series monotype with chine colle 16 x 23 inches
This monotype has a Tower of Babel attached to the rag paper beneath it by a method called chine colle, which uses a natural glue and the pressure of the press to embed it onto the surface. The word El is the name for God, and when combined with Bel which is another name for the Hebrew pagan god, Baal, it forms the word BABEL (Baal -God). A monotype print is unique / one of a kind print made by pressing paper against a painted or inked surface that cannot be exactly duplicated. I used an etching press to incorporate the Tower of Babel. The size of the print includes an inch around the monotype to include the title and rough edges, ( 3 inch matting) -
Outside the Camp IV
16 x 20 unframed 22 x 26 framed in copper This acrylic on panel is the last of a series called "Outside The Camp." Figures robed in white robes of righteousness leave the city to suffer like Christ "outside the camp." Scriptures speaks of the transient nature of this world's cities and our pilgrimage towards "the city eternal in the heavens, -the everlasting city." It is framed in a hand-made copper frame. -
Proxy War Sacrifice.
12 x 20 inches (with black wood frame 20 x 28 inches) oil and wax and collage The repeated shapes and motif of broken houses were created out of news events in Ukraine. Biden and his bodyguard are in the left side of the central house and the white cloth hanging in the bombed out building on the right reminded me of a sacrificial lamb that are the people of Ukraine. -
The Tower of Babel is being washed away in a raging sea like the vessel below on the stormy Baltic Sea. In the heavens above, God's words in Greek text and Ashanti (Ghana) text read, "Go to all the world and tell good news." At the bottom there is text. "in systematic order, "referencing God's sovereign control in the midst of the tempest.
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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).
