Forty Days
A Painting A Day
When I took on this self-imposed challenge of creating one painting every day between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday (2017), I was fearful, but determined. I wanted my art to speak, to cut to something that bypasses words. I wrote, “I’m not sure my art has meaning, but it has come from meaning. I want a relationship with a co-creator using me.”
I follow my curiosity to find if it is possible to let paintings speak—allowing for the process to come. Not from me—but through me. To let the Flow, flow, so to speak.
My imagination was captured by scriptures like, “You were once darkness, now you are light in the Lord” (Eph. 5:8) The idea of reflection, seeing poorly, being fully known are bits of truth that go deep. Also phrases with time such as Now, Today, On that Day—all showed me a sense of urgency to the message of the Cross.
The scriptures also return to the idea of foolishness and how it is perceived by two different groups—those with the Spirit and those without. The wisdom of the world, contrasted with the hidden wisdom of God. For understanding the wisdom of God we need the Spirit.
(1 Cor. 1:18)
God knows everything, sees everything and has known everything before the world began, outside of time. There is nowhere to hide and futile to think that there is anything God does not see (Heb. 4:13). The idea that we can only know in part allowed me to do a bit at a time and wait to see what it all added up to. I can do now, today, this minute, something.
