"Face to Face / Von Angesicht zu Angesicht" // Original painting on canvas, 22"x28"
Title: "Face to Face / Von Angesicht zu Angesicht" (2025)
Medium: Acrylic ink, marble dust, acrylic, gold foil, silver foil, and copper foil on canvas
Size: 22"x28"x1.5"
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Paradise is to be face to face with Love
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known. Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love—but the greatest of these is love.
—1 Corinthians 13:12-13
I have not always been a believer. But something about the Christian faith that captivated me when I finally had eyes to see it was this: the depths where God sees me and all my secrets (Psalm 139), all the reasons why I am who I am and everything I’ve done and left undone, have not caused him to turn his face away from me. In fact, the polar opposite is true. Jesus has given me evidence that I am loved so overwhelmingly completely in that place of full relational nakedness that I was worth dying for. If you are reading this, he sees you, too, all the way down to the deepest depths, and he loves and accepts you in ways that you cannot possibly find within yourself or any other human being in its fullest scope. And that love, while it was costly for Jesus, is freely offered to you.
That kind of love, if we receive it with open arms, is what makes it possible for all creation to be made new, because all our shame and confusion and sin cannot exist in the face of such a burning force of beauty and goodness. And when those things have been transformed into glory and clarity and holiness by God’s power (not our own), I believe with every cell in my body that we will be able to transmute the love given to us into a force that we can bestow upon our fellow humans and all of the created world, and there will be no substance down to the smallest subatomic particles that will not be transformed by it.
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ARTWORK INFORMATON
Original canvas collage painting in red earth, gold, yellow, blue, green, and shimmering purples.
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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COPYRIGHT
Artwork is protected by copyright. All images displayed are property of Kelly Kruse. The sale of original artwork does not include the sale of copyright, including rights to reproduce or license imagery. All rights reserved.
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