Wick stmt

Olivia's Art Studio - Still Life

Artist's
Inspiration

18" x 24"
Oil/Red Oak

The Wick of the Candle
"A Burning and Shining Light"

“The lamp of the Lord searches the spirit of a man;
it searches out his inmost being.”
Proverbs 20:27

One of the greatest things ever said of man was that phrase in which our Lord summed up the influence of John the Baptist— “He was a burning and a shining light.” God grant that we may not have the cold light of the moon that shines, but does not burn, but of the sunlight, that fills the world with radiance and from the heat whereof nothing is hid.

Light is gentle, and the influence of our character may be without voice or language, stealing through the office, the workroom, the social circle, or the home. Light is absolutely humble, falling equally upon the stick and stone, upon the young lambs as they play in the fields as it does upon the golden cross above St. Paul’s cathedral; and wherever you find the truth of Jesus Christ, the glow of it will illumine the most obscure corners as well as the more conspicuous platforms of your life. Light is unobtrusive, you do not see ‘it’; but only the objects on which its wavelets break. You are only conscious of the presence of light because of its revelation of the true nature of all things in heaven and earth. All things, says the Apostle, are made manifest by the light, for that which is made manifest is light.

The wick of the candle becomes absolutely transformed when it touches the central flame. Too many people resemble exquisitely prepared candles, the richest and best materials having been used in their manufacture, and it may be that they stand in golden candelabra, but all is useless because the flame has never been kindled.

(Painting is also referred to and exhibited as: "In the Midst")

Olivia Cameo Lewis, 2002