Envisioning Christ

Elta Marie Wilson

 

Cosmic Mother with Background Radiation

Acrylic on canvas, 36” X 36”, 2014

[Jesus speaking]: And now Father, glorify me with your very own splendor, the very splendor I had in your presence before there was a world.
John 17 The Message: The New Testament in Contemporary Language as translated by Eugene H. Peterson.

Here the Hubble Telescope’s data “photograph” of background radiation left over from the Big Bang is shown within the womb of Cosmic Mother. When Michaelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he drew his image of God resting within a diagram of the human brain. In Cosmic Mother, she too sits in a brain-like shell, but here it pours forth stars of the Milky Way into a chalice sitting on a golden altar. The flowers imitate orchids as if they are angels found in our daily lives.

 
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