“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask oursleves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our prescence automatically liberates others.” ~ Nelson Mandela
“Then God said, ‘Let there be light; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from darkness.” – Genesis 1:3-4
In this painting, I wanted to depict the birth of light and how the angels must have been startled and wept at the very sight of it. Their contours of their nakedness highlighted by the shadows of their ribs, fingers and stomach revealed in the shimmering new light of oxidized gold leaf.
And then there was Light (egg tempra, acrylic, gold leaf)
Artist: Charmian Toh
Copyright 2005
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