Yes, I admit that it is strange, but the inspiration for this painting came from mosquito larvae in a bucket of water. It has been reported that the similarity between human and chimp DNA is between 95-98.5%. Well, before you start thinking that maybe evolution is true, you should know that scientist also claim a 60% similarity between human DNA and that of a fruit fly or mosquito! All DNA is made up in combinations of sequences of threes and these are called triplets. Which of course brings us back to the magic number three... Everything that has ever been made was created by Jesus Christ and this is a true statement if you choose to believe your Bible. So just because there are basic similarities between my DNA and that of a monkey or fruit fly does not necessarily mean that I used to be a monkey or a fruit fly. There is also a 75% similarity between the DNA of humans and nematode worms. So what is it then, did I come from a monkey or a worm? Or perhaps the Bible IS true and we were all created independantly by God.
There is a certain amount of repetition in the universe. Spacial relationships are governed by unseen forces such as gravity and electromagnitism. The earth rotates around the sun at a distance of about 93 million miles. If the earth was moving faster its orbit would be even further out from the suns surface. This painting however, is not about planetary objects, but speaks to the spaces between sub-atomic particles. If a single hydrogen atom were enlarged to the size of the earth, with its nucleus of a single proton in the center of the earth; then the electron orbiting the nucleus would be located somewhere out in the earths atmosphere! I have read that if all of the matter in the universe were compacted to the point to where there was no longer any free space between the individual particles; then the resulting object, if shaped into a cube and placed in the center of our sun, would reach out to where its sides would be located at the orbit of Mars. This means that we are surrounded by and made up of, a LOT of empty space! Did you know that a neutron star has been compressed so tightly by gravity that its core is a giant diamond? Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky...
Blood cells, veins and cappilaries... The "LIFE" is in the blood. Blood cells carry oxygen to the body and ultimately CO2 and other wastes from the body. Blood, if you really think about it, is simply a transport mechanism. Without it we die for it carries in it what we need for life. The Bible even makes a statement about our blood: Le 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood:
This speaks of course to human life but when we take a look at this concept with spiritual eyes, it becomes pretty easy to see a parallel story line. If we want to have "spiritual life" then we can also find that in the blood. Not in our own blood however, but in the precious blood of Jesus! His blood washes our sins away and replaces them with His own Righteousness. Now that is a blood transfusion!
There is not a lot to say about this painting other than it was an experiment with color juxtipostions and using a wet on wet technique to bring to mind cloud formations. I also use a paint removal process to expose the red beneath the greens... It ended up looking like a view of a weird purple lake from an airplane at about 30,000 feet! I will say, that this piece is much richer looking in person that it looks in this photo. I will keep experimenting... You never know what might happen next.
