Your Kingdom Come!

I will not attempt to tell you what these paintings are “all about”, as the best pieces of the work came through me and not from me.  I invite you into the conversation, eager to learn from what you discover, and offer some ingredients of the imagery as a start to the dialog...

It was while painting this image that my style and process changed.  I discovered many new properties of the paint as I took the time to add layer upon layer of paint, and found a new visual language of multi-valiant imagery, the collision and overlap of multiple images.

Detail of the painting surface.

The Needle of Time

“We are stuck in mortal time, it is the gift and limitation of being human.  Like the needle on a record player, we can only live in this ever-passing nanosecond of reality.  All time past and all time future is beyond our reach... and we cannot make this needle speed up or jump back, it simply sweeps us steadily along at the rate of this spinning planet.  Yet the amazing gift of mortality is this: we are the tip of the needle WRITING THE STORY of history.  Historians can look back in wonder on what was and prophets can peer into the dim future seeing glimpses, but we actually inhabit, perpetually, the very edge of reality that is SHAPING eternity.  As co-creators with God of this Meta-narrative, we are watched in wonder by a great “Cloud of Witnesses”, the angelic and saintly who are gloriously beyond the constraints of mortal time.  But they do not write the story as we do, unaware as we are of eternal purposes unfolding among us in this sunset, this tide, this day’s mundane labor.      

      Yet Christ also promised his Holy Spirit, God himself, who is at once inhabiting us in mortal time and beyond with the heart of the Father.  The Spirit is the tear in the veil, the conduit of access between heaven and earth, and Christ has commissioned us to bring his Kingdom to our world, his original Edenistic design to a fallen creation!"  Bryn

PURCHASE PRINTS

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