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Monday, December 15, 2008

Little Experiments #2: Already Not Yet

So this is the second piece in the Little Experiments arena. I added a few more filters to this one going for a more fuzzy look. (I dont know if I like that) Like last time, the writing in the piece is given below only this time I have attempted to mimic the color scheme of the writing in the piece so that you can tell which words are highlighted. The highlighted words indicate may own interpretation of the form at the bottom of the (to me when I painted it I thought of it as an "r") but not everyone would interpret it as such. This painting is purposely more subjective than others. Nevertheless in naming the world  the letter r reminds me of redemption and resurrection and our own attenuated grasp of these realities. Thus: 

Rolling away the stone is a matter of life or death. For without this Life there is no life, the start that reignites. And while death yields a massive production whose ramifications spread far and wide, the power to heal the rupture is found, dependably intruding, redemption resounds. But we have ceased to begin, looking only to the end, forgetting the nature of the gift received. Because the kingdom of God has been inaugurated, the resurrection has begun, the power of life has been given and the end of death has become, we ought not to go on living as if we’re still in debt, but live asthough we have died already, even if not yet.