The Sky Hasn’t Fallen Yet
It started with one wave and a stroke of inspiration. Then, what first began as a few oil paintings in a not-so-serious, yet very ambitious attempt to apply to art school, eventually and naturally grew into an interpretive collection of art and a developing book idea that I will continue to work on as I pursue my graduate studies—and that truly is the art of the creative process.
I first captured my wonder in waves and clouds to illustrate my emotions and thoughts. Then, it’s like the clouds around my head parted ways and a waterfall from the sky graciously appeared to encourage me to think above and beyond the boundaries of my reality. Captivated by my newfound Christian faith, The Sky Hasn’t Fallen Yet explores the duality of light and darkness foretold in Genesis 1.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below and the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. God called the expanse heaven. (Genesis 1:1-8)
God separated the waters above from the waters below and He called the space in between heaven. How beautiful is that? I expressed the duality of light and darkness with color, depicting the light with sunset hues and the darkness with shades of blue. I then explored the duality of space and time through the sun and moon, visualizing the sun as the color red and the moon as the color blue. There's far more to the bigger picture and The Sky Hasn’t Fallen Yet is a God-given stroke of inspiration that is coming together surely.
One thing that I wonder about is that there may be a day when the waters below will become too polluted to sustain our way of life on earth, and it’s on that day that we will pray for the waters above to come—or panic! That’s such a far out thought, but one thing we can do now to avoid that scenario is to make conscious choices in our everyday life that will lessen our environmental impact on the ocean and to raise awareness about the implications of climate change. And what does that have to do with God? I don’t know yet. This is a work in progress, and so I am sharing my art so that you may come to your own interpretation of the bigger picture.
I first captured my wonder in waves and clouds to illustrate my emotions and thoughts. Then, it’s like the clouds around my head parted ways and a waterfall from the sky graciously appeared to encourage me to think above and beyond the boundaries of my reality. Captivated by my newfound Christian faith, The Sky Hasn’t Fallen Yet explores the duality of light and darkness foretold in Genesis 1.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below and the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. God called the expanse heaven. (Genesis 1:1-8)
God separated the waters above from the waters below and He called the space in between heaven. How beautiful is that? I expressed the duality of light and darkness with color, depicting the light with sunset hues and the darkness with shades of blue. I then explored the duality of space and time through the sun and moon, visualizing the sun as the color red and the moon as the color blue. There's far more to the bigger picture and The Sky Hasn’t Fallen Yet is a God-given stroke of inspiration that is coming together surely.
One thing that I wonder about is that there may be a day when the waters below will become too polluted to sustain our way of life on earth, and it’s on that day that we will pray for the waters above to come—or panic! That’s such a far out thought, but one thing we can do now to avoid that scenario is to make conscious choices in our everyday life that will lessen our environmental impact on the ocean and to raise awareness about the implications of climate change. And what does that have to do with God? I don’t know yet. This is a work in progress, and so I am sharing my art so that you may come to your own interpretation of the bigger picture.