Please Stay On the Line, and, Your Call is Important to Us, part b

Your Call is Important to Us

As the USA celebrates 250 years this weekend, I am enjoying the celebrations, patriotism, and the general feeling that my society is (mostly) happy to be celebrating. In spite of the heat wave here in northern Indiana, the events, concerts, and fireworks are continuing, and I am glad. I am thankful for the blessings and freedoms that I participate in because of the sacrifices made over the last 250 years. What a privilege to live here. 

2 paintings to be used either together or separately, vertical or horizontal orientation

36" x 48" each

Painted with artist quality heavy-body acrylic paint on 1.5” deep gallery wrapped canvas

Edges painted black

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As I posted last time, my Beloved Husband and I have had a lot going on lately. If you follow along with me on a regular basis, you know that we have had an employment change (since selling the family business) and that we have lost some people who were dear to us. What I don't think I have told you about is that we have purchased property and want to build a very-much-downsized retirement house for us to move to on that property. And wow! We are running into snags with it! We have built and remodeled places in the past, but this project seems to be W A Y more difficult. *sigh. Maybe in this painting, you can recognize the building blocks that represent the slow process of working through this new building project for us. 

Please Stay On the Line
Your Call is Important to Us

Though it is impossible to see from the photos, there is metallic gold in many places in the work, sometimes showing and sometimes completely behind the busyness in the foreground. The textures were built up layer by layer, too, and the rectangle shapes have been painted using tools meant for silk screening, which leaves much of the underlying color and texture showing. Neutral colors make up most of the painted surface, with the colorful underlayers only suggested in most places. 

Since the two works (Please Stay On the Line, and, Your Call is Important to Us) were painted together, they work  well as a diptych, and can be hung in many different orientations. But I also worked to make each painting a stand alone work. 

This morning, my Bible reading took me to 1 Corinthians 3 in the New Testament. I felt challenged by the idea that my work, my life, can be seen as a "building" - that my foundation is my Savior Jesus Christ, and that my work can and should be true and valuable in His sight. It feels fitting to focus on that idea as we work through our many adjustments in this time of our life. 

1 Corinthians 3:11, 16 

11 For no one can lay any other foundation than what has been laid down. That foundation is Jesus Christ.

16 Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you?