The Rapture

About the Art  The Rapture is about the spiritual experience of becoming so at one with Spirit-God, that you are filled with a blinding ecstasy, a spiritual rapture that pours through your heart, mind and body. It’s so wonderful and powerful that it is almost physically painful. With it comes the experience of a love so pure and intense that nothing on earth could possibly compare. It can last for a few minutes or several hours. This first happened to me when I was 12 years old sending me on a lifelong journey of spiritual discovery which influences my art today.

The Story Behind the Art  Life just didn’t make any sense to me at 12 years of age. Of course, what does make sense to a 12 year old, but I seemed to have been born old with urgent life questions. I feel as though I’ve grown younger now (more care free) as I’ve aged. At that time, perhaps it was my imagination, but there resided a wonderful memory of the holy world of pure love that I’d come from before I was born. This memory, or part of my imagination, made me feel lost, trapped in a foreign world that was so opposite the home and friends I remembered.

I read and studied a lot for a 12 year old. I’d just finished reading the Bible from cover to cover. What an ordeal for a 12 year old mind! Too many “begets” and not enough of the good stuff, Jesus talking. I knew that Jesus must have said so much more that they didn’t write down. It was frustrating. Afterwards, I didn’t feel any closer to this question about life that seemed to be strangling me. I felt like a drowning person disparate to reach the surface for air. I longed disparately to know and love God.

One evening, (this is where I sound even more crazy) a wonderfully wise “presence” seemed to be with me. I was sitting cross legged with my back against the wall alone in my darkened bedroom. I was praying for help. I didn’t want to live any longer. When I first felt this powerful holy presence it frightened me. It was so strong and I didn’t know who it was. But it spoke with powerful clarity, “Surrender your life to me.” This scared me even more, but this person was so warm, wise and loving that I thought to myself, “What the heck. What do I have to lose?”

Then inwardly I faced this wonderful soul and said, “OK, from now on, everything I do is your fault.” I took a breath to collect myself, then said with complete release, “I surrender my life to you.”

A great peace filled me different from anything I’d ever known. A light shinned around me filling me with a great spiritual force, then I felt lifted up into another world that seemed to go on forever. It was filled with a most wonderful light but the best thing was the love that poured through every fiber of my being. It was a love so powerful that nothing on earth could compare with it. The love in this world was so pure that even thought could not exist. And that was the strangest thing that I noticed, there was no thought in this world. I knew many things with great clarity, but not with thought. I just knew.

So this experience lasted for perhaps 20 minutes, it felt like eternity to me. Somehow, I was not able to speak to anyone about this till I became an adult. I took 10 years of wondering and research but finally I was able to repeat the experience often, almost at will. But that was just the beginning of my journey. Someday, I hope to have the energy and time to write it all down. 

Creating the Art In September of 2006 I invited my wonderful friend, Silana, to do an sunset photo session in La Jolla on a 800’ cliff overlooking the ocean. She loved the idea of creating spiritually uplifting art and was open to my vision. A few days before the shoot I had the idea to purchase 20 yards of sheer material. This turned out to be divine inspiration. The wind-blown, translucent fabric really captured the feeling of currents of spirit flowing around and through her. In all my art and even my commercial projects, I try to illustrate the divine in each of us. I hint at what it might be like in the beautiful realms we’ll live in when we leave this body behind and where we might travel in our spiritual dreams, prayers and meditations.

I create art by starting with photos, then combining them in different ways to create a window into a divine world. My background is in fine art, painting, photography and graphic design, so I bring all these sensibilities to bare in creating art. In Songs of Spirit - Sunset, I envision a sacred being overlooking the edge of a spiritual world, who is experiencing God’s love with such force that a spiritual wind blows through and around her.

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