2020-2025 The Twelve Minor Prophets
Each painting of the twelve is 7 feet by 4 1/2 feet and is multimedia acrylic. The first was the prophet Nahum. Started after a newscast about the difficulties of rebuilding the infrastructure of a large city located on the outskirts of a Biblical Nineveh. The Twelve Minor Prophets now are owned by Phillips Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Nahum
"Nineveh is devastated; who will bemoan her?"
Jonah
Jonah is a companion piece to Nahum. Nahum was about the destruction of a disobedient city; Jonah is about the centuries' earlier survival of that city, Nineveh, after its admission of guilt for tits cruelty and the destruction of its neighbors and its promise to behave in the future.
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"When God saw...how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity...and he did not do it." Jonah 3:10
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Malachi
"See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me..." Malachi 3:1
The remaining prophets are not presented in any particular order. Each prophet has both a musical instrument representing proclamation and a timepiece. Unconventional materials are used: real Japanese beetle corpses in "Joel", hundreds of cut-out canvas painted human figures captured in real nets. Because of the diversity of the approach and materials, most were worked on somewhat simultaneously.
Hosea
"For a spirit of whoredom has lead them astray."
Joel
"What the cutting locust left the swarming locust has eaten." Joel 1:4
Zechariah
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"For there shall be a sowing of peace, the vine shall yield its fruit, the ground shall give its produce, and the skies shall give their dew...." Zechariah 8:12
Haggai
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l"I am about to shake the heavens and the earth...." Haggai 2:21
Zephaniah
"The LORD...will renew you in his love...." Zephaniah 3:17
Amos
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"A basket of summer fruit." Amos 8:2
Obadiah 1:4
"Though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring ou down." Obadiah 1:4
Micah 7:2
"...they all lie in wait for blood, and they hunt each other with nets." Micah 7:2
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Habakkuk
"Their horses are swifter than leopards, more menacing than wolves at dusk; their horses charge. Their horsemen come from far away...swift to devour."" Habakkuk 1:8
