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Yahweh in Converse with Job
Having had the privilege of hearing directly from the artist of his confict and vision doing this painting, I am somewhat feeling more enlightened than as if I had just come upon it. As I look back at my first moment when I saw the painting I saw a very fierce Lion. I didn't understand the Lion's anger until Larry spoke to me of the painting and realizing that he had been seeing this in his mind for 54 years it was impressive. As we talked I saw the "heart" shape on the left center as you look at the painting inside the "Lion's" right arm. I noticed it as a human heart opened in all of its chambers and all the confusion inside it. I could see a main "Aorta" coming down to it like our human hearts they are the center of us physically but really it is our minds that control us. Our minds are also mixed up with confusion just as this heart seems to be. I see the amazingnees, to create a word, of how our minds are mixed up with, knowledge, hope, anticipation, love, joy, anger, bitterness, peace, gratitude, mourning, despair, pleasure, fulfillment, all in one place and yet we still don't have total understanding of all things. It is such a heart to me.
The other part of this painting that really touched me was an almost hidden part. On the right side center directly across from the "heart", is what looks to me as a small sailboat. I see the Cross as the mast and the sail with the big heart on it. The boat part comes out of water with a small eye. This makes me think that all that anger and confusion of the left side has come to peace in the cross of the right side because that cross brought Love. The heart on the sail is the love symbol. The eye of the boat is watching it all come together.
Mexican Wedding
This painting mostly made me think how even though we are calling it a Mexican Wedding it could be in any part of the world. I see the woman angel as the world and of course the influence on the couple by evil and good is part of every couple and person in this world. I see all of the different people and look at it as how different we can all appear to be but we really are all the same. We are born, grow, live, love, reproduce, nuture, grow old and eventually die. The world over it is the same. Every culture has some marriage rites or rituals and this is just one example. The other people there are part of that couple, touching their lives or worlds as others touch ours. We are different but mostly we are the same.
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