Lotus Keeper

“Lotus Keeper” takes inspiration from orthodox icons. Here I’ve painted Mary Magdalene, her face is the shell of the beetle opening to reveal a garden scene and a seemingly out of place paper airplane. This garden scene is an artistic depiction of a vision I had while praying to God. I was a paper airplane flying along a river in a beautiful garden full of lotus flowers. I then suddenly crashed into the river and got crumbled up. But then I zoomed out from where I was and seen the beautiful garden around me. It didn’t matter if I got crumbled up because I was in God’s garden.

If we have been adopted into God’s garden - His will, it doesn’t matter if we fail, we are where we are supposed to be. Maybe this painting is also telling us that its not about the person but its about what revelations have they had in their life that makes them who they are ? Maybe the lotus flowers represent growth from under the water, an analogy for our lives after baptism.

”This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.” 1 Corinthians 2:13