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Bill, what great thoughts and insight you bring about Ezekial. I'm affected by the way you noticed how God in the OT would be more story oriented as oppossed to just a single symbol. While I agree that perhaps this could be summed up in a single symbol, I believe that it goes deeper. The cross is extremely deep. Think about God's wrath and God's love simultaneously and yet distinctly portrayed. It seems like this is the one event where all of heaven, hell and earth were partakers of. The Jews delivered Jesus to the Gentiles and the Gentiles scourged Him and God raised Him from the dead. The Jews and Gentiles show that every human being from east to west has their hands "dirty" in the death of the Incarnate Word, the Son of God. Let's not forget the part satan and his angels played. And yet, God sent Him and orchestrated this and poured out His wrath on Jesus. There are many angles of the cross. It is not a monocromatic painting, but one of extraordinary depth and textures. Went off on a tangent, but a concept I had for the regeneration painting is to try to capture a seemingly spontaneous act which is divinely planned and ordered. As I was walking in Philly today, I was just looking at cracks in the sidewalk. On one of the stones there appeared to be what looked like a face. Nothing spectacular, but I began to ask myself how we recognize intelligence behind supposed chaos. This is actually an art project I have been wanting to tackle through the use of an experimental book. Perhaps the whole concept of regeneration could be portrayed through the pacing of multiple pages. But as I was walking I encountered a part of the sidewalk that contained a structured pattern of laid bricks. That show intelligence. Why? Repetition. Perhaps through the concept of repetitive spontaneity a painting, installation, etc could show this. Abstract concept and I probably sound crazy, but I got tickled over it. LOL I have no idea how one would show those two principles. How do you illustrate order, repetition and sponaneity all at once?
Rob