PROMISE OF A NEW LIFE

For This and That

For Green Day

For Sky Watch

For Mellow Yellow Monday 

For Our World

NOTES

As a painter

you want to capture it all

in one gesture.

that takes you to the past,

present, and future.

In my more usual style

some of it with broken rays of light*

so, technically it would be called

a transitional piece.

Not, because I can't make up my mind

but I do anything to get my point across.

Breaking the rules:

Away with "say one thing in a picture" (this time:) )

Since I painted this for people in a large room

I emphasized the edges of the dove.

Later, I may decide to soften them

People in that time became as old as some 860 years,

so I don't know ifone would  have gray hair 

at 600.

Green is symbolic for new life.

Who is this about?

Noah

the man who endured gossip

no doubt, being mocked

who knows, even harrassment.

All because

God told him a boat in a century of drought

It took him a hundred years

Finally when it was finished

they loaded two of each animal in the ark

I wonder, the fish too?

150  days of rain pelting on your roof cannot be a pleasure!

Still, they had to wait another 47 days

in cramped quarters

before the dove came

with an olive branch,

the promise of a new earth 

a new life

I have a friend that has 2 science awards

who went to mount Ararat 5 times

A place so high that the snow does not melt in the summer.

The Turks are not very fond of people giving access,

so he had to rely on people from that local area. 

Hubby and I saw a TV documentary

(with shots taken from a plane of the actual ark

that looks like an oblong box)

how they built it, etc.

Mathematically and architecturally

they say the measurements are perfect

to withstand that kind of a flood. 

Several stories exist of "a big flood"

but as far as I know this has been

the only one documented with 

something substantial that withstood that flood.

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* one could compare this technique as an enlarged version of what Van Gogh did

 with his dots to represent light.