diarmadwoods
XX - Untitled Piece, Dip-Pen Ink and Brush Ink on Watercolour Paper, 42 x 59
Largely inspired by Dutch Masters, notably the technique of foreground architecture and landscape revealed behind it, used as far back as the Renaissance. The subject places one finger within their ear, symbolic of seeking God through Silence, associated themes include Lectio Divina, the practise of considering the divine through study and the internal world, in foregoence of the external. Midrash, Christain mysticism, monastic silence, Desert Fathers, the anchorites and ascetics who lived in the Scetes desert during the time of Rome, and Fools for Christ, those who give up sanity or convention in pursuit of something higher, or some higher service.
The hair crosses the subject's eye in order to reinforce this idea, - of the internal pursuit, one eye is closed to the world - a common theme, prominent in the depiction of Odin, who gave up his eye in pursuit of wisdom and insight, at the well of being; while also serving to present the obfuscation presented to the senses used to know the world.
The one point perspective represents a path to something that cannot be seen, or the unknown.
XX - Untitled Piece, Dip-Pen Ink and Brush Ink on Watercolour Paper, 42 x 59
Largely inspired by Dutch Masters, notably the technique of foreground architecture and landscape revealed behind it, used as far back as the Renaissance. The subject places one finger within their ear, symbolic of seeking God through Silence, associated themes include Lectio Divina, the practise of considering the divine through study and the internal world, in foregoence of the external. Midrash, Christain mysticism, monastic silence, Desert Fathers, the anchorites and ascetics who lived in the Scetes desert during the time of Rome, and Fools for Christ, those who give up sanity or convention in pursuit of something higher, or some higher service.
The hair crosses the subject's eye in order to reinforce this idea, - of the internal pursuit, one eye is closed to the world - a common theme, prominent in the depiction of Odin, who gave up his eye in pursuit of wisdom and insight, at the well of being; while also serving to present the obfuscation presented to the senses used to know the world.
The one point perspective represents a path to something that cannot be seen, or the unknown.