It’s not just the hints in the air, it’s much much grander and it’s in my spirit! “The times they are a changin” Who can plan or engineer these things? Certainly not me! I’ve spent many a frustrated season trying to pull things out of a hat, trying to make things happen, confident in my own chutzpa, only to find the results pretty paltry. 

So, I can’t tell anyone what makes magic. Except for this: what the angel illustrated for the prophet Zechariah (who didn’t get the imagery and needed more words:) “not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit says the Lord of Hosts.” Can He get an amen?

This piece has been sitting half finished in my studio for about 10 years? Maybe longer. I keep juggling things around to make room and pieces show up and make me discouraged (“how come I never finished that!” or “what a piece of junk, but the board is good, I’ll just paint over it…”). 

I can tell my practice is improving because I am getting bolder and finding better results. There’s no magic in that except perseverance. My visible gray head is testimony of that!

But I am studying Revelation, that most ominous of books, and incredibly finding great hope in it. I know how the story ends and I can see how it is all being choreographed with meticulous thoroughness. Someday I’ll make a study plan of it for others. That is if I live that long. That will be with words on paper, but first come the images. The book of Revelation is chock full of imagery!

The energy and the urgency in the words is what is moving me forward. This is chapter 15, “Moses’ Song and the 7 Bowls” Finished February 26th, 2019. It is 12 x 15″, encaustic wax on cradled panel, with embedded collage, then cold wax mixed with oil color.