Me Without Jesus. 1995.

This composition represents me before I became a Christian. I believe that as a non-Christian I was cold and distant towards God. To show this I have used the secondary colours. In the picture, ‘Me With Jesus’, the primary colours were used, blue represented my spirit, yellow represented my soul and red represented my body. Here the secondary colours derived from the primary colours are used, orange representing my spirit, purple representing my soul and green representing my body, with black and brown. As a non-Christian my soul was in charge of my life, hence purple is the largest area followed by green for my body and lastly orange for my spirit.

​A square or rectangular picture may be divided geometrically into four equal parts, two along the top being positives, two along the bottom being negatives. In my picture both my soul and body occupy positive and negative parts whilst my spirit, which I viewed as of little or no importance, occupies the bottom left part, which I call the super negative part of the picture. Also as a non-Christian my ‘heart’ was cold, unregenerate and dead to God, and to illustrate my heart and that state, I have chosen brown, which is in a sense a lifeless red and my least favourite colour. This area of brown is also placed in the super negative part of the picture. The picture is also flat. I believe that I was functioning on just two levels, my soul and body. I was so to speak a two-dimensional person. All the colours chosen are cold colours except for orange. However when surrounded by cold colours the warm orange appears colder than what it really is.

​I believe that the placing and choice of colours and the determining of the shapes by means of geometry and of the Divine Proportion give a certain kind of structure to the composition, reflective of my life at that time. As I look back to that period I can see that God was at work in my life behind the scenes and I have portrayed this by the use of the Divine Proportion to fix the boundaries, shown by the black lines, of my spirit and of part of my heart.

​Please see my back story regarding my picture Me With Jesus.