Pulled Over in Amish Country

 

Pulled Over

in Amish Country

7 in. x 14 in., acrylic on 

traditional-depth canvas

$180 unframed 

Last March we had a chance to visit dear friends who had moved last year to Ohio.  They took us on a little day trip out to Amish country where the gently rolling hills and farmland as far as the eye can see felt so different from our native New England.  We still have working farms, livestock and cropland in New Hampshire, but everywhere we are hemmed in by Appalachian mountains, granite outcroppings, maples and tall white pine.  There is no "as far as the eye can see" in New Hampshire (unless you climb one of those mountains) because you can only see as far as the next stand of pine.  This painting is Mount Hope, Ohio, where, after a feast at Mrs. Yoder's Kitchen (oh, that pressure-fried chicken!) I insisted our friend John pull off to the side so I could get some shots of the landscape... as the clip-clop of a buggy approached!

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Legion

Legion

12 in. x 24 in., acrylic on canvas

$650 unframed

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A deliverance icon.  Imagine being Jesus in Luke 8, who, being confronted by a demoniac (who knew exactly who He was), finds Himself being bargained with by the demonic powers.  They know what He is capable of, and began pleading for more lenient terms of their dismissal.  It's apparent they desperately want to be embodied and be go inhabit the herd of pigs on the hillside.  He give them the left hand of (dis)fellowship, and allows them to do so, but the pigs aren't having it.  In our animal-exalting society, isn't a breath of fresh air to see Jesus reckoning the worth of a man as being of much more value than a herd of pigs.  In this icon, you'll see the chaos pigs represented as three groups of six as they disappear from the rocky cliff where the poor oppressed man found shards with which to cut himself.  Away they fall, into the waters of Galilee, funneling down over the edge as through the neck of an hourglass, because they know their time is short.