2015年5月13日清晨,在我祈祷和冥想的时候,一条改变生活的信息呼啸而过:“绘画启示录”有了这两个词,我就知道该做什么,该如何开始了。我要画一本《启示录》,然后写一本关于绘画过程的《启示录》。当时,我不知道绘画启示也会指的是我绘画中的图像,当颜料干燥时,这些图像会自动显现出来。我开始有意设计和绘制这个系列的第一件作品。然后我试着把颜料倒在画布上,开始了冒险之旅。在大约一年的时间里,我倒了22幅大的丙烯画。当颜料干了之后,其中20幅画中有《启示录》中的图像。其中11幅画完全没有我的干预就描绘了《启示录》的章节。当这一系列完成时,我惊讶地发现,我倾注的画作中,90%都有启示意象在画作干后自动出现,而现实让我感到震惊。对我来说,这是一个难以置信的事实的确凿证据:圣灵不仅在过去与我们同在,而且在今天与我们同在。而且他正在让大家知道他的存在。
Painting Revelations: A Spiritual Odyssey
It was early in the morning of May 13, 2015, during my time of prayer and meditation, that a life-altering message came roaring through to me: “painting revelations.” With those two words, I was shown what to do and how to begin. I was to paint my way through the Book of Revelation and then write a book of revelations about that painting process. At the time, I had no idea that Painting Revelations would also come to refer to the images in my paintings that would reveal themselves spontaneously as the paint dried. I started out intentionally designing and painting the first piece in this series. Then I experimented with pouring the paint onto my canvas and the odyssey began. Over the course of about a year, I poured twenty-two large acrylic paintings. When the paint had dried, twenty of those paintings contained images from the Book of Revelation. Eleven of the paintings illustrated Revelation chapters entirely without intervention from me. When the series was complete, I was astounded to realize that 90 percent of my poured paintings had Revelation imagery spontaneously appear as the paint dried-that reality blew me away. To me, it was tangible proof of an incredible fact: the Holy Spirit is with us-not just in the past, but today-in all our lives. and he’s making his presence known.
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