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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 12 W x 12 H x 1 D in
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Do we need permission to love? What is it that makes us feel loved? Not Who. WHAT.? I ask if God is allowed to love in this canvas because God is viewed as the authority over love. Yes, the apple is symbolic of Judeo-Christian mythology, but God as a concept applies to any religious belief or doctrine. I even address Atheism here because the lack of a belief in God does not necessarily defeat love, but it does create a problematic lack of universal connection to love unless love is defined by rules of connection. Yet, if love requires rules or an authority then it is dictated by right and wrong rather than by free will, choice and mutual vulnerability. I question whether God/Love even has a chance in this painting to bring attention to the action of loving and its presence that can’t be owned. Love is not an identity, it is an action, a mutual exchange of desire and appreciation between 2 or more people or even with your self. The belief in a doctrine of proper love suddenly kills the genuine presence of sharing the aspects of the heart and reducing such glory to rules and regulations. Even God would suffer a loss if love were to be forever dominated by rules that suggest that one is not good enough to love or that there is a final destiny to love. Love is a relationship, not a reward or noun or identity. As such love must forever remain in motion in order to be felt, experienced and enjoyed. – Is God allowed to love? Are we allowed to love?
Original Created:2019
Subjects:Religious
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:12 W x 12 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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I tell people that I paint God’s mistake which I know is controversial whether you are deeply religious or the opposite such as atheist. Yet my work is not about God, religion or atheism. My art is about the trauma associated with the inescapable relationship that mortality has with innocence. Our birth is not the intent of mortality, but it necessarily creates our personal annihilation. This personal destiny leaves each of us vulnerable to condemning our connection with innocent others who “created us to die” without our permission. Our “error” is our ownership of blame for mortality which is not the power over death; it is our power over cruelty. This inescapable destiny is where my art begins its expression(s). MY ART I use the ancient form of 2-D art to represent TIME as broken yet unfinished and continuing. Like the backside of a hung painting, we are absent before our birth and brought into reality through “others” who have marked our canvas of life already. Once born we see ourselves reflected on the "front side" of life yet witness our previous absence. My art examines this division as the relationship between hope and trust relevant to innocence. The change that each of us becomes by birth is a natural expression from life that we can perceive as a tradition of change. My art celebrates this with my rotation of mediums, vivid colors, energetic brush strokes, narratives of time-conflict, emotional dichotomies, vortex compositions showing our inescapable connection to a fractured reality, rhetorical word-play, and weapons symbolizing our relationship with mortal vulnerability. My “signature” is broken mirrors that capture the WITNESS as part of my art reminding us of our entitlement to mortal existence.
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