Artist's Statement:
I have been working for seven years on a group of paintings entitled Strong Women of the Bible. In this head study, I worked to explore the feelings that might have animated Batiya, as she contemplated the choice that would change her life and the world. A daughter of the Pharaoh, she found a weeping, male baby in a basket adrift in the Nile. She knew that her father had decreed the death of every first-born Jewish male child and she had no doubt the baby was “of the children of the Hebrews." Nonetheless, she “had compassion on him,” saved him, and raised him as her son.
Oil on Wood Panel
12 x 36 in
She’s the kind of queen that knows her crown
isn’t on her head but in her soul.
Adrian Michael Green
Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back.
From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing
that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency
and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent.
You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold
you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment.
John O'Donohue
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Art as an Oasis™
Art as an Oasis is a series of occasional postings from the art of Carrie Kleinberger
providing a temporary respite from both mundane and monumental cares
complimented by words of wisdom from a diversity of others.
~ on the strength and beauty of the individual soul ~
In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of [the] individual.
This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations
take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these
hidden source[s] in individuals.
Carl Gustav Jung
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