(1) To Any Length

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This is a transforming piece.  Inspired in part by my pastor’s teaching from Romans 15:1-13, The Divide Has Been Crossed, I had many images that came to my mind and heart during and after that message.  When I began creating this work I was focused on the differences in our culture: opinions, behavior, and ethnic backgrounds which often bring disunity.  

 

I tried to show the diversity in unrelated colors as in a landscape of life, going from the very lightest light to the darkest dark.  If you look closely, you may notice how each color was painted as a wash, one over the other, until the combination of those colors created the darkness.

 

The transformation in this work started with the next step when I began visualizing how the disunity and messiness of my life can be overcome with the hope of God’s love.  As I often do, I used gold as the symbol for divinity and began the laborious task of implanting and tying the imported gold threads on top of the colors.

 

These threads dramatically cover all the nuances of darkness and imperfections and go deep, piercing the paper, and yet leave room to return back up to the light.  In short, I visualized how God will go to any length to initiate His love toward me, with an appeal for me to respond with the same love back to him and out to others.

 

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.  Romans 15:13

 

References:  Romans 15:1-13; Zechariah 12:10-11