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Why the Frames (or borders) on many of the the Genesis: Sunset-Sunrise paintings? Many of my paintings have “frames” painted around the image area, especially the paintings in the Genesis: Sunrise-Sunset series, which deals with how the physical universe is created (both theologically and scientifically) and then how we personally perceive that reality. The frames are usually painted with gold or silver paint. They are placed a bit inside the background color, which then surrounds the outside of the frame. Sometimes the frame seems to hover within the edge of the image so the image continues past the painted frame. The frames are usually created from the words of psalms, because psalms are prayers. Our reality is created by our beliefs. These beliefs may or may not be consciously held or chosen. Our unconscious and unexamined beliefs are often in conflict with other ideas that we have chosen intellectually, but struggle to make real on an emotional or deeper soul level. When confronted with the perception of a new reality, we sometimes use denial, until we can filter and process the new reality. For instance, a child who is raised to feel inferior and worthless will not immediately resolve those feelings by the Judeo-Christian teaching that he or she is created in the image of God and is the apple of His eye.
Scientifically, we know that speech creates sound vibrations and that these can be measured. Thus, they exist. Likewise, thoughts are also measurable, and have been measured in many experiments including some done at Yale over twenty years ago. Our thoughts do create our attitudes, and to some degree our physical and mental health. So our prayers, whether spoken or thought immediately effect our perceptions of the world. If we stretch and pray beyond our known realities and experience, we expand our inner vision of reality. So, if I am feeling inferior and I prayerfully ask to be shown how I am the Apple of God's eye, if I ask to walk more in God's reality than mine, I am stretching the boundaries of my personal understanding and vision. By my reckoning, our prayers reach further into the ultimate, into the spiritual realms or heavens than any of our other thoughts or communications, since by the very act of being in prayer, which means communication, we are furthering our alignment with God. The frames are painted to show our prayers at the boundaries of our reality.
Often what we refer to as our conscience or a gut reaction to someone or something, or a “feeling” that urges us to do something uncomfortable, but good, such as donating money or being friendly to a stranger and risking rejection. Sometimes, God speaks to us through the counsel of many. Of course, depending on one's religion, there are holy texts, such the books of the Bible , which are considered to be the Word of God.
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