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.
This is one of my small paintings informed by the biblical account of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11). It incorporates Pieter Bruegel’s painting, The Tower of Babel (1567). I find this image particularly relevant to our culture and the postmodernist belief that language is power and necessary to create one’s own truth. The news media is a powerful word and thought influencer. Here is an article about police quelling the riots in England. In the midst of this fiery confrontation a white figure appears, perhaps the same figure who appeared with the three men in Nebuchadnezzar’s hot furnace.
Postmodernism is anti-foundational. But the Word of God is eternal in the heavens. It is foundational.
