The Creation Series is seven mixed media paintings on wood panel - one for each day of Genesis 1. I'm not illustrating the text. I'm inside it, trying to paint what it might have felt like to be present when something came from nothing, when darkness was named, when separation was necessary before anything whole could exist.
This series is in progress. Seven days. Seven paintings. Come back.
Day 01 | yehi or - let there be light.
Before anything existed, God spoke. And what he said became. The light arrived before the sun, which means what God called into being wasn't a star or a source. It was the condition of light itself.
He looked at it and said good. Not finished. Not perfect. Just… good.
20×20, mixed media on board
Day 02 | vayavdel — and He separated.
Day Two is the only day God didn't call good. He made the firmament, pushed the waters above from the waters below, and moved on. No "it was good." Not yet.
I think He already knew separation wasn't the end of the story. It just had to be, for a time.
vayavdel is scratched into the expanse itself. Not at the edges. In the middle. Where the separation lives.
20×20 mixed media on board.