Bob May
08-24-2010, 08:34 AM
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
I just got my copy of the Bible Wheel. While skimming through it the artwork by rose caught my eye. Very nice stained glass and metalwork.
All art should have something behind it. Rose's pieces very definitely have being based as they are on the bible wheel.
I wanted to make a way to illustrate that we live in a world of symbology that is always pointing us toward our Creator.
So 2:9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice. I noticed long ago that the verse says "showing himself" not hiding himself as we may be prone to read that verse.
My wife and I were talking about it thinking along the lines of the camoflage art of Bev Doolittle.
Jesus hidden within a carving or something along those lines. But how to do this simply?
Just as Richard shared in his book that Rose said something that made everything fall into place. My wife Dawn said something that made me think of the hand with the hole in it.
In the Gospel of Truth in the Nag Hammadi scrolls it points out that there is a
book of life or living book. If we can read the book, we are written in it. And if we are written within it we can read it.
I believe the living book refers to both the world we live in and the bible.
In that same collection of scrolls in the Gospel of Thomas it states, "Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: From me all has come forth, and to me all has reached. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
http://www.esnips.com/web/robtmay-WoodWork/
This is what I came up with to illustrate that the temporal world that we are surrounded by is not what is most important.
I made the solid walnut hand by taking a plaster cast of my own hand and then using that as a model in a carving machine that I made. It acts as a stand for a clear plexiglass frame.
Any transparency from a personal computer printer can be put into the frame.
When the light comes from the front (viewer's side) the "appearance of things" is pronounced. When the light comes from behind the silhouette of the hand of the creator shines through.
It is all a matter of perspective,...just like real life.
2co 10:7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
Bob
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Last edited by Bob May; Yesterday at 11:59 AM.
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
I just got my copy of the Bible Wheel. While skimming through it the artwork by rose caught my eye. Very nice stained glass and metalwork.
All art should have something behind it. Rose's pieces very definitely have being based as they are on the bible wheel.
I wanted to make a way to illustrate that we live in a world of symbology that is always pointing us toward our Creator.
So 2:9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice. I noticed long ago that the verse says "showing himself" not hiding himself as we may be prone to read that verse.
My wife and I were talking about it thinking along the lines of the camoflage art of Bev Doolittle.
Jesus hidden within a carving or something along those lines. But how to do this simply?
Just as Richard shared in his book that Rose said something that made everything fall into place. My wife Dawn said something that made me think of the hand with the hole in it.
In the Gospel of Truth in the Nag Hammadi scrolls it points out that there is a
book of life or living book. If we can read the book, we are written in it. And if we are written within it we can read it.
I believe the living book refers to both the world we live in and the bible.
In that same collection of scrolls in the Gospel of Thomas it states, "Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: From me all has come forth, and to me all has reached. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
http://www.esnips.com/web/robtmay-WoodWork/
This is what I came up with to illustrate that the temporal world that we are surrounded by is not what is most important.
I made the solid walnut hand by taking a plaster cast of my own hand and then using that as a model in a carving machine that I made. It acts as a stand for a clear plexiglass frame.
Any transparency from a personal computer printer can be put into the frame.
When the light comes from the front (viewer's side) the "appearance of things" is pronounced. When the light comes from behind the silhouette of the hand of the creator shines through.
It is all a matter of perspective,...just like real life.
2co 10:7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
Bob
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Last edited by Bob May; Yesterday at 11:59 AM.