04/05/2025
“Entering the Kingdom” is a visual meditation on the soul’s ascent—a passage from The Kingdom of Darkness into The Kingdom of Light.
The painting unfolds like a prayer rising. At its base, I used deep, cool hues—indigo, obsidian, violet—structured into sharp, geometric forms that evoke the weight of separation, the heaviness of the world, grasping for meaning. These angular shapes are intentional—rigid, confined, symbolizing the architecture of the self before surrender. They are the walls we build, the doubts we carry.
But there’s movement—always movement. From the depths, a current begins to stir. You’ll see it: the geometry loosens, dissolves, giving way to soft, organic forms that begin to rise—fluid, like breath, like His Grace.
Color becomes light. The cool blues melt upward into warmer aquas, then into golds and amber. These are not just transitions in pigment—they are thresholds. The ascent is not linear; it swirls, dances, flows with The Holy Spirit.
At the top, a burst—The King Himself, pours Himself downward in radiant streams.. His presence, a knowing, an invitation. The golden rays do not dominate but reach gently, interweaving with the path below, illuminating it.
This painting is not a depiction of arrival but of approach. It is the moment just before crossing—the Kingdom is not a place, but a presence. He waits, luminous, above the noise, above the form, above the self.
“Entering the Kingdom” is not about being there. It’s about longing for it, moving toward it, and the transformation that begins the moment we do.
I hope you enjoy.
