The Boundary / Yours is the day, yours also the night
Title: "The Boundary / Yours is the day, yours also the night" (2021)
Size: 40x40"
Acrylic ink dyed kozo collage and mica powder on canvas
From "O Mirabile Mysterium," my body of work illuminating Genesis 1. This work explores Day One of Creation, when light was separated from the dark.
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Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
-Genesis 1:3-5 (NASB)
“Have you ever in your life commanded the morning,
And caused the dawn to know its place,
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
And the wicked be shaken out of it?
— Job 38:12-13
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
— John 1:1-5 (NASB)
Yours is the day, Yours also is the night;
You have prepared the light and the sun.
— Psalm 74:16
“Reality remains ambiguous until it is perceived.”
Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter widely accepted to exist but extraordinarily difficult to detect because it does not absorb, emit, or deflect electromagnetic radiation. Scientists believe the universe is composed of roughly 95% dark matter and dark energy and 5% luminous (ordinary) matter.
Light of the World, you are the maker and ruler of space and time. I wonder, who else could draw the light out of the dark with a word?
If observation makes something real, then your first seeing birthed reality. You saw, and it was good. You stood at the inception of all that is material, both the luminous and the dark. Oh Lord my God, you surely are not limited by the darkness, but you made us to be creatures of light. By your radiance we are able to perceive and understand—to exist. You wanted us to see your goodness, too—you crafted the cosmos of luminous matter both magisterial and mundane. You contain all that we need to identify all that is.
The truss of your cosmic holy place, the great arch upon which your cathedral rests, is time itself. You are the Lord of Time, the keeper of the day and night. You established the evening and morning as a rhythm that would draw us to you for all our days, to remind us that while you are the giver of light, you are also the one who holds the darkness and sets its boundaries.
Oh Lord, illuminate my heart, which can only be made luminous if you make yourself shine upon me. Keep me present in the rhythm of your days, and when the darkness comes, remind me that time and space, light and dark—all these are in the holy balance of your hands.
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Original painting in grays, blues, reds, and golds.
All artwork is signed on the back. Can be signed on the front at collector's request.
Keep in mind that paintings can look slightly different in person. I paint using a lot of texture, so they are even better when you can see them in person - it is hard to capture here!
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