Paintings 5-8 of the Book of Hours Series

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5.

Friday Afternoon: Darkness

The sun is obliterated.

Earth and heaven barely hold together.

Where has the color gone?

Obscured.

Color is only revealed through light.

Darkness rules while colors fight to re-emerge.

The earth trembles, shudders, ominous and empty.

Is it?

A curtain is torn.

It is cold.

It is over.

It is dark.

The work is finished.

6.

Saturday: Silence

Silence.

In Pilate’s courtyard the paving stones have not been swept clean yet.

The courtyard is littered with debris like the aftermath of a party.

Drying blood waits to be scrubbed away.

Bits of cloth, thorns and vines are caught by a breeze.

The Word offers only silence this day.

In followers’ hearts - turmoil.

7.

Sunday Daybreak:  In a Fog

The first gray tones of light reach the Jerusalem sky.

Mary was here before, as the Sabbath began.

Laden with spices she tries to remember her way through the garden.

Along the rock-strewn path.

Tears and swollen eyes obscure her vision.

She sees almost nothing.

She stumbles repeatedly but she doesn’t notice.

A servant. Dazed.

8.

Sunday Sunrise: Unsealed

This painting of acrylics and oils

Also contains pulverized stone.

Painstakingly crushed. Added to the painting medium. Gloriously mixed with media.

Applied to the canvas with difficulty.

Cracked. Crushed.

Once another stone was broken.

Unsealed.

Light emanated, bursting from the first tiny fissure.

Atoms shook. Bits of rock shattered.

Hardness dispersed.

Light, shining, radiating

Glory.

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