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16" x 20" Pastel/Clay

On the Sixth Day

“There is an infusion of a spiritualized ideal of human beauty in her work.
“On The Sixth Day” has been described as the most beautiful of all the
series . . producing a sense of detachment from the world and evoking a
deep spirituality, the antithesis of the painting’s reality.” 
Critic

There is reason to believe that the Chinese written language bears a testimony to prehistory with emerging details closely resembling the Hebrew portrayal.  Some information contained by the ancient characters gives unexpected insights into the little-understood primeval world.  The graphic symbols often seem to give specifications referring to the two worlds—either that of Adam and Eve in the mysterious preflood period, or to Noah and his family, the postdiluvian (postflood) common ancestors.  Most remarkable of all is that the Chinese characters have survived intact through the intervening thousands of years with very little modification in the meaning of their constituent parts.

It seems the ancient Chinese people were quite familiar with the same record which the Hebrew Moses is popularly given credit for writing some 700 to 1,000 years later.  Imagine this information being stored in special characters that were in use hundreds of years before the first page of the Bible was written!  In dissecting the components of these characters, it is believable that the Chinese actually employed this historical knowledge as one small facet in the process of building their written language.

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed [with his mouth] into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being [not a baby, but an adult, able to walk].

The first human pair were made from dust of the earth.  When the human body is analyzed chemically it is no more than so much as carbon, calcium, phosphorus, iron, water, and so on.   Second, by zoological classification the first humans belonged to the class of animals in that they had the breath of life, a breathing apparatus of the same kind as the beasts of the earth, the birds and the reptiles.

What made the first pair distinct from all the animals was that they were made in the image of God.  One thing the image of God in man does imply is that man can understand and choose to listen to the voice of God.  [See Genesis 2:16, 17; 3:9-13]

Exodus 3:2
There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush.  Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.

The key for fire.  Here is portrayed a manwith flames 
radiating from him.
 

Why should a man be sued as a base for fire unless the first man truly gave the appearance of being on fire?  From this radical, fire, an enlightening discovery concerning Adam’s original appearance can be made.  One can learn how his body must have been clothed with a glorious shining light before sin caused the loss of his perfect character (glory) and resulted in his nakedness.

This original pastel painting is the artist’s concept of the visual picture of the Chinese character for the word “to create” dissected in its components.

The written language of China was conceived during the primeval, monotheistic period, when the religious concepts were still pristine and the history of earlier ages unmuddied by later innovations.  The record contained by many specific characters carries such a close similarity to the Hebrew Genesis that it would seem only logical to believe that both civilizations must have access to the same common historical knowledge.  Acquaintance with the true early religious background of the Chinese therefore makes Genesis correlation more credible and understandable.

                                                      Olivia Cameo Lewis

“The figures are warm, strong, detailed, and very human.
At the same time composition carefully subordinated
parts to the whole.  The artist reveals form and volume
through line.  Look carefully and you will see the
form of a serpent in Adam’s rib,— the rectus abdominis muscle.”  Critic

 

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