"The Last Blatant Obstacle on the Road to Perdition" or "Thoughts on the Way to Serenity, Waxing Western Evening Sky"

Semi Abstract Translation

This painting is part of a series called “God is Love”. I don't speak much about this series. During year 6. Of owning my first gallery. I decided to remove everything off the walls and hang nothing but blank canvases all the way across the left side. So essentially what you had was 1200 square feet of blank canvas on the wall.

When you counted it up, there were about 18 blank canvases. I had no idea what I was about to paint. So, several weeks into looking at a giant wall with blank canvases on it, it finally came to me. I grabbed a can of black spray paint and sprayed gigantic 9-foot letters. I wrote the words “GOD IS LOVE” in all caps across the entire section.

The rest is simple, I just began to fill the canvases. I had spent 20 years of my life asking God about what it meant to fear Him. Which really is a bad translation. If you do your research the original translation should be the word “REVERANCE”, yes Reverence God. I remember seeing the ancient scripture that said “The fear of the God is the beginning of wisdom” and I remember saying “well, I want to be wise”.

So, I set off on a 20-year journey to learn what it meant to reverence God. So here I was, seemingly, beginning a new journey setting out to discover what God is Love means. This series was the start of that endeavor. I began in about 2014, and it took me about four to six months to finish it.

Several of the pieces have already been purchased, but there remains a few. The title “The last blatant obstacle on the road to perdition” is in reference to the many obvious things that God attempts to put in our way so as for us to avoid destruction.

In my life, I've gone around these obstacles, clearly went my way, because I thought I knew best, or I was just being selfish. When in fact, I knew beyond shadow of a doubt, it was not God's choice for my life. The title paints a picture of that one last roadblock, if there is one, that God puts in front of us before we are too far gone to repent, or change.

It's really an unrecognizable roadblock, because I don't believe many men reach that point, not many that seek at least. Nonetheless, this is that point conceptualized.