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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). -
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Word Worship Babel
oil and wax and paper on canvas 16 x 20 inches 950.00 This piece was selected for exhibition in Madrid’s Galerie AZUR for the FLANERIE EXHIBITION 2021 The reference is the postmodern phrase that “the world is a TEXT to be manipulated for power. Words are power and our attempt to make a global community without the WORD of 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) -
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). -
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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Sale!12 x 12 inches oil and wax and Wall Street Journal on framed panel My Global City Babel Series incorporates The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel. Here this motif is painted over financial news from the WallStreet Journal with the headline, "Gold Moves Lower." You have built on sand... 'Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming on you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion wil be evidence against you. You have laid up treasure in the last days....you have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you. James 5
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12 x 12 inches oil and wax and Wall Street Journal papers sold 2021 protests across Europe, from a story torn from the Wall Street Journal, formed the Tower of Babel motif for this Global City Babel painting. It was the fiery yellow that caught my attention, and when I embedded it in the beeswax I saw a figure between the police and the rioters.
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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.
