Towards Eternity Without God. 1995.

This is the sister picture to ‘Towards Eternity With God’ and I believe depicts a non-Christian’s walk through life without God towards eternity. 

​A landscape is used as a metaphor for this walk with violet representing the sky and green the earth. The two diagonal black lines break up the areas of colour, rather like geological fault lines breaking up layers of sedimentary rock, here to represent brokenness and sinfulness within one’s self, in relationships, towards the creation and to God. The outer broken large rectangle has four areas of colour, the inner smaller broken rectangle also has four and all the black lines have the same thickness thus creating a flat composition of no depth, this being symbolic, I believe, for the lack of ‘life’ in a person choosing to live without God. There are two other smaller areas, one white and the other red. The white area, located within what I call the positive quadrant of the composition, is at the centre of the two black diagonal lines that form a ‘cross’ and is symbolic of God speaking into a non-Christian’s life and offering a relationship with Himself, forgiveness, healing, fullness of life and eternity spent with Him, through Jesus’ death on the cross and resurrection. The red area, located within what I call the negative quadrant of the composition, is symbolic of Hell, an eternity spent without God, the end result of a continuing choice to live on the Earth without God. There are large areas of cold secondary colours, violet, green and orange, that I believe represents the triune nature of a person, spirit, soul and body, that has rejected God.

​The Divine Proportion of a third to two-thirds division of a line together with the geometric system of dividing up a line into equal parts underpins the composition and imparts structure and rhythm. In the composition the eye moves from top left around and down the picture with the black diagonals helping to focus the eye to the small white and red areas, and then to seesaw between the two. I believe we have been designed by God to have a vital and dynamic relationship with Him, to enjoy Him and His creation and if we are not doing that, then I believe that then creates within us a state of inner uneasiness, tension and stress. This seesawing and lack of rest for the eye reveals this state of uneasiness, tension and stress, qualities that I believe are inherent in a person choosing to live life without God.

​Please see my back story regarding my picture Towards Eternity With God.