For the Healing of the Nations

 

For the Healing of the Nations

11 in. x 14 in., acrylic on cradled panel

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Taking up a challenge to produce an abstract painting for a show, I had the idea to explore an iconographical image with a tree-of-life theme.  The tree runs through the Bible from cover to cover and several places in between.  It is the occasion of the cosmic tragic fall of humanity into death and moral decay and the material that composes the rescuing ark of Noah; it is the Ark of the Covenant where God meets the high priest on the Day of Atonement and the thing that gets planted as a place of memorial; it is a tree that was the instrument of execution on which Jesus was sacrificed, and finally shows up in the New Jerusalem at the consummation of the coming Kingdom of God in Revelation.  I wanted to create an image that conveyed a dynamic full of movement, power and mystic symbolism of a greater reality; something that pulled into one the scriptural themes running through the biblical tree. The title "For the Healing of the Nations" comes from and illuminates Revelation 22:2, describing a divine Christophanic tree so incredible and transcendent, it nourishes and restores humanity.  I hope you like it.