The Unknown
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Brittany “Jane” Boyd – “And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:4-5) To know good and evil is surely a temptation that is unbearable. Eve was not persuaded by the serpent, but by her curiosity. He merely planted a seed which sparked a growing fantasy of the unknown. Even today people are left with choices that they know are against their better judgment, but are overwhelmed with the need for knowledge and experience beyond their own.
One Man
Art Medium: Acrylic on Wood Door
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Camie Boshears – I, like Adam, tasted of the world’s fruit. Its beauty lost its color, and its flavor lost its sweetness. Just when I could stand my stains no more, Jesus, in His mercy, opened my eyes to His Cross – the Cross of Christ….where my sin was atoned, my burdens lifted, and my heart made new. It was there that my Redeemer, the ONE MAN, declared me righteous.
Male and Female He Created Them
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Anne Cutri Bolton – How many times have we heard God’s timing is not our timing? But have we really thought about it? In God 1,000 days are 1 and 1 is a 1,000. The timelessness that is experienced in prayer and praise—that peace that passes understanding, is it not the absence of past, present, future? So it is in this painting. God is creating Man and Woman and a bunch of planets or universes or perhaps other souls preparing to be born. Whatever the case, as far out as we can go in our imagination, it still won’t come close to God’s.
Flaming Sword Before the Garden of Eden
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Anne Cutri Bolton – This is interpretation of the angel with the flaming sword guarding the Garden of Eden. Most of my work concentrates on the spirit of the biblical passage not the literal pattern is loosely represented. The sword is the kind of sword-like image I’ve seen in visions. Flames or fire in the biblical sense, I imagine being more waves of light that don’t consume but rather annihilates.
Eve Created
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Anne Cutri Bolton – In this painting the ark Adam and the white Eve have different layers of meaning. First, the literal interpretation becomes mystical. Adam being made up of a dark dirt (dust) and Eve of a light dust. We look the way we look from the clay God chose to make us with. Some of us were raku fired some of us were made from fine porcelain. The other level of the painting is that Eve is the spiritual feminine side of Adam and vice versa.
Eve Before the Fall
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Anne Cutri Bolton – Often I meditate on what it was like “before the fall” – what God intended us to be before sin. Once, in prayer, the Lord spoke to me and told me I was a rare orchid. Somehow I knew this was the self that I was seeking to be, or see as He sees. This painting represents in sounds, smells and symbols of what I imagine Eden to be.
Temptation and Fall
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Virginia Berg-Taylor – In “Temptation and Fall,” I used a symbolic Santa Fe style cross to symbolize Heaven and His Sacred Heart represents God. The pinon tree is considered the “food of the gods.” So the Tree of Life in the Garden is a piñón tree. The piñón nuts are the fruit offered to Adam and Eve. The crosses on their foreheads symbolize their innocence. The serpent looks on satisfied with his work. A new awareness unfolds, and they can never see the Garden of Eden in the same way. Piñón nuts lie on the ground. Adam and Eve clothe their shame and nakedness with leaves and with great sadness their tears spill over.
Beginnings of Creation
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Virginia Berg-Taylor – Being a westerner and native New Mexican, my German/Spanish heritage plays a big part in my art. In “Beginnings of Creation,” I used a symbolic Greek-style cross to symbolize Heaven, the seventh day of rest, and the Sacred Heart of God. Starting at the upper top of the cross, night, day, stars, sky, sun, moon, the great dark sea, and the creation of land are shown. The bottom right half of the cross shows the great whale and various creeping and crawling creatures, including birds. The bottom left shows Adam and Eve with the green things of the earth, a date palm tree bearing fruit, and several more animals. The swirling Earth is shown behind the cross.
Judgment and Hope
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Virginia Berg-Taylor – In “Judgment and Hope,” I used a symbolic Chimayo-style cross to symbolize Heaven and His Sacred Heart to represent God. The left side of the cross portrays the cherubim with his swirling sword of fire guarding the entrance to the Garden of Eden and the Tree of Life. The right top side of the cross represents the East of Eden and the cursed serpent being crushed by the heel of Jesus. The bottom right depicts the serpent striking at the head of man. Adam and Eve are portrayed in their garments of skin knowing that a life of pain and struggle await them. A lone pine tree behind them symbolizes hope and new life for mankind.
Temptation
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Sarah Beadle – The name of my work is Temptation. It is an abstract piece based on Genesis account, in the bible, about the temptation and fall of man-kind. In the bible, Genesis explains how Adam and Eve betrayed God. Because of this act, we now have free will. There is now evil in the world because of free will. The first act of evil was when Adam and Eve disobeyed God. This is what inspired me to create it: to show that there is evil in the world, but there is hope and ways to stop it, because we have faith in God.
Crush
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Ritchie Baker – This is a classic snake in the garden tempting Adam and Eve picture. The tree was done the way it was to give it more interest in that it would have been more tempting. The snake represents a lot of different poisonous snakes; since the deceiver is the father of all snakes. The fruit is symbolic of course since we don’t know the real shape or look of it. The title comes from Genesis 3:15 . . . “He shall bruise you on the head . . .” And Luke 10:19, “Behold I have given you authority to tread upon serpents . . .”
Apprehension in Paradise
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Seth D. Bailey – I felt that there would be apprehension between Adam & Eve, and the serpent. I was inspired by the words written in Genesis and by the artwork of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. I wanted this painting to show the beauty of the human form and have the feel of the 1500’s Italian Renaissance art.
Arise
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Rebecca Bailey – My name is Rebecca Bailey and I chose to draw a scene with lots of animals and bright colors because that’s what I think it looked like when Jesus created the earth. At first I didn’t know what to draw so I started to read Genesis in the Bible and got a lot of ideas about creation and how the earth began.
The Deception
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Ashley Archer – The inspiration for this piece came to me with the help of my sister, Rachelle. I had the idea of a snake, an apple, and the world held by Satan. We decided to make the snake beautiful; we figured that Eve wouldn’t be deceived by anything less. The dagger’s hilt is Satan’s hand, which is clutching the world. The hand is meant to appear repulsive, but frightening also. This shows that Satan has control of the world. I wanted to portray Satan as an alluring creature, but also that his beauty is a facade that hides his true self.
Temptation
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Angela Anderson – “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.” Genesis 3:6. The tree was enticing, unique, forbidden yet inviting. It promised pleasure but delivered death. I made the tree red to symbolize both sin (which always appears attractive at first glance) and the blood of Jesus, which covers our sins. The twisting trunk hints at what some like to speculate was the “original sin”. The crafty serpent is there watching for a timely opportunity to ensnare.
