This painting is almost finished. It’s been almost finished for over a month now. I wish that were the exception and not the rule, but…let’s just say it’s not my only long process piece.
This painting is significant to me because of the turn I’ve seen in my work. It isn’t so much about the outcome but the process. It began like many in that it started out in play and letting go of some stress. The difference is that since my ‘Tipping Point’ painting I’ve felt a greater nearness of the Lord in the process of creation. There is a letting go of how something is perceived or what I think it ‘should’ be and more enjoyment in it. Essentially, this is a letting go of the anxieties around the work.
In this one as I applied paint, I began to see a landscape of mountains with a womb in it. This is what the past few years have felt like to me. The mountains have felt impossible, but Jesus is saying that he is bringing life from these mountains. He is birthing something beautiful, beauty in the ashes.
I know that I am not the only one that is or has experienced difficulties and challenges. He has something beautiful for you too. Sometimes we just have to wait out the storm.
(The painting above is, “It Won’t Be Long Now.”)
Title from Amos 9 message version.:
13-15 “Yes indeed, it won’t be long now.” God’s Decree.
“Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won’t be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills. I’ll make everything right again for my people Israel:
“They’ll rebuild their ruined cities.
They’ll plant vineyards and drink good wine.
They’ll work their gardens and eat fresh vegetables.
And I’ll plant them, plant them on their own land.
They’ll never again be uprooted from the land I’ve given them.”
God, your God, says so.
Melicia Evans 