The Armour of Light

The Armour of Light is now hanging at Red Bank Design Center. Thank you Jill Ricci & Jenn Hampton for the invitation to participate and for your continued support of my artwork.

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I painted this work 2 years ago, in June of 2020. At the time I was committed to a daily studio practice, working in a basement of an abandoned liquor store and engaged in all-out spiritual warfare. With my awareness tuned to the totality, I worked in isolation, my method of both fighting and protecting myself was to produce art. The act of creation is an act of resistance. An old friend @maxnova once shared with me the idea that one could visualize a pyramid around the body as a protective shield, the act of holding the pyramid in place with one’s awareness has the tendency to strengthen one’s posture and restore one’s agency in an atmosphere of negative energy. While producing this work I was in the daily habit of reading the New Testament and took the title from a passage in Paul’s letter to the Romans.

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“And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.

(Paul the Apostle, Romans 14:11-14, KJV)

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