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THE REVELATION PAINTING overview

Inspired from a childhood experience, The Revelation Painting has been an 12 year endeavor to not only create a magnificent and historical work of fine art, but to combine worldwide effort through the use of natural resources in creating the painting-the first of its kind.  Drawing attention to the details is what ultimately creates "the whole picture".  It is not just about a valuable stone, more importantly a valuable people.  Precious and semi precious gemstones were gathered and crushed into shards for Scene VII of the painting which is the core of global participation.

By collecting stones from all over the world, their beauty shed an illuminating light on the people and cultures who build their homes and lives upon such beauty.  In admiring the stones and their originations, one begins to admire the people and their cultures.  Striving for an exposure unlike any other creating a kind of visual and artistic peace around the world!  Imagine the hypnotic effect of the bluest sapphire from Sri Lanka combined with customary, bright colors of  Sri Lanka's people...astounding!  To learn more about Sri Lanka, visit: http://www.info.lk/srilanka/srilankaculture/index.htm

The Revelation Painting is a massive work of art measuring 12 feet by 40 feet with seven magnificent scenes, along with sub scenes used as transitional areas between scenes.  Thirty canvases measuring 48″ X 48″ are required for the creation of the painting.  The canvases are gallery wrapped cloth and custom-made wooden canvases required to carry the weight of gemstones and storage of elements of the painting.  This painting will travel the world in exhibition and is history in the making scheduled for release in December 2011.  Seven custom journals will accompany the work as noted below.

In this world of turmoil and unsettling conflict around every corner, something very beautiful can be created through resources not commonly used to create unity and world peace.  Twelve total years will be dedicated to exposing the beauty of world resources, its people, spirit, culture and soul.  It is a “presence” of beauty for by the world and for the world, a form of visual peace.  Many inequities have arisen throughout the world and transformed once very beautiful resources into material items from which to be killed for simply possessing them. 

The core of The Revelation Painting is to generate not only awareness but revenue for unfortunate members which live in some of the most valuable lands in the world yet have minimal necessities to survive.  In many countries, basic human rights are being violated, people are starving to death and families are being murdered for precious gemstones.  It is somewhat ironic that I, as an artist crush those very stones.  The weight of humanity far outweighs the value of a diamond.  Read about "blood diamonds":  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_diamonds

The Revelation Painting  also incorporates fiber optics, 3D “flip” graphic resources, thermochromics and other things commonly not seen in fine arts.  Each gemstone holds a sacred place in the painting which is identified in one of seven journals being created simultaneously titled: The Stones.  The journal includes information about the stones and it’s origin related to the painting.  One of the mysteries of Revelation have been uncovered in this section of the painting!

The other six journals are:

The Journal of Dreams
The Journal of Visions (which also includes the last year of the making of the painting in a diary format)
The Journal of Measures (and Numbers)
The Journal of Sketches
Truth-The Hemorrhage of Pigs!
Journal of Acknowledgment, the most important journal in the series acknowledges the participation no matter how great or small toward completion of this masterpiece. It discloses not only individual contributions but information provided by the contributor and advertising if desired of their businesses, personal information, a message to the world, dreams and aspirations. Essentially whatever the contributor wants to say to the world!

Please see more information specific to each journal in the Journal Overview.

Scene II GOD measures 14 feet by 9 feet and is alive with color and energy, moving on the canvas and illuminated. As the audience becomes hypnotized by the sparkle and light, the painting begins to bleed before their very eyes: Truth-The Hemorrhage of Pigs!  Transformation of religion becomes political and the viewer finds himself looking at a painting within a painting.  Here is where the initial interpretation becomes a battle of good and evil throughout the painting.  A hidden mystery is disclosed here, then the painting returns to the beauty of brilliant, white light and energy!

Over $2500.00 of high quality acrylic paints were used to create the Devil due to his remarkable, highly textured reptilian skin.  Real gold was used in various areas of the painting!  Human hair was used on some characters to enhance realism, embedded and combed into the heavy lacquer becoming a part of the painting forever.  High gloss polymers mimic fluids suspended on the canvas.  A mystery of religion, politics and humanity is revealed within the Four Horsemen scene which will be disclosed later in the blogs to follow!

Please subscribe to the blog for regular updates. The painting will be shown via live webcam in mid (est., June) 2010 with the artist working on it…THE FINALE'. You can find yourself sitting in your own home yet behind the artist watching work on the final details!  There will be scans of the work and updates of all aspects of the wonderful creation starting in January 2011. You will view the last year of the making of this historical painting. It is a painting to the people for the people. You and the world are a part of it!

Please note that all aspects about the painting will be blogged including but not limited to:  Letters written soliciting sponsorship and/or investors, auctions, advertising of the painting, in addition to specific blogs related to the making of the painting.  You will not be solicited but will have access to where the areas of participation are offered such as having your name embedded in the painting as a crusader of good in the visible but invisible battle of good and evil which is occurring right before your eyes!
It is exciting, original and Revelation is Rising!