This "Root of Jesse" is the result of a welcome "collision" of different areas of my life.
It is a piece for my job, because I needed a representation of the "root of Jesse" mentioned in Isaiah 11:10, but the "artwork" of the same I found online was mostly of extremely poor quality. So I made my own.
It is a portrait of Advent waiting.
It is a representation of hope in the face of overwhelming odds against that same hope.
It is a play on The Metamorphosis of Plants by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which I've now read four times in the past couple of weeks.
It is a culmination of another reading of Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer and the (environmental) weirdness that lies therein.
It is in the style of the underworld pieces collected in my Chthonic coloring book.
It is inspired in part by a study of tree trunks by artist Ivan Shishkin.
It brought me great joy this past week, which was a gift of its own.
It brought me great joy this past week, which was a gift of its own.
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