Emerald Vision Abstract Oil Painting Original painting:Original oil painting on canvas 18 x 24" raking light

raking light

like it's recording history in its form

According to both Sufi and Hasidei Ashkenaz mysticism

perhaps the witch's  own face straining in the hard the work of gathering energy to thrust out again

I wanted to portray the crone nature of one of these cemetery trees without falling into what for me is the trap of Naturalism

Emerald Vision Abstract Oil Painting Original painting:Original oil painting on canvas 18 x 24" raking lightBreaking through to higher realms how do you know when you are really ascending and when you are just kidding yourself? According to both Sufi and Hasidei Ashkenaz mysticism, you see something like sun gleams in green water. The mystic is advised not to be fooled if it looks like the water is rushing past it is really the mystic who is rising. The gleams are the sparks of the divine. This is referred to as the visio smaragdina in Sufism and a peculiar