All of the following sets of acrylic paintings will soon be sold on Ebay. They were created for two painting courses in college. I also plan to show (soon) a series of paintings that are NOT for sale, that deal with my mom's struggle with ovarian cancer.
These were done for Introductory painting - the first two in this set form a night/day diptych of the UH architecture building.
The third is "Still life with Candy". They are on canvas, the size is roughly 16" by 24" for all of them.
These paintings reuse parts of a selective list of still life objects. All paintings here are on paper, sizes are small, ranging from 4" by 4" to 8.5" by 11".
Of particular note are the abstracted symmetric painting of seals, the "weightless" floating objects painting, and the "recording process" painting, in which a still life, the artist painting the still life, and the camera recording the artist, all appear in one composition.
First one is a collage, not a simple painting. It contains textures - printed paper, sand, plaster, and lichen.
It hints subtly at the dichotomy between natural and artificial, opposite from each other are two destructive forces - an atom bomb and an earthquake - and two codes cross the planet diagonally - DNA and digital binary code.
Painting #2 is a manipulation of the ordinary - a parallel world which at first glance appears to be an ordinary landscape, but contains many otherworldly details.
Both works are on canvas, sizes of roughly 72" by 72", and 72" by 96".
A series of three paintings based loosely upon three Hieronymous Bosch works - "Paradise", "The Final Judgement", and "The Temptations of Saint Anthony".
All three contain a knight figure. There was a prerequisite in the Intermediate painting course to use a certain toy in each painting, thus the Playmobil knight.
The center painting is least connected to Bosch out of the three, it retains the composition but nearly every element is original - and some are disturbing.
This set is not for sale. It was created for my mother, Margaret, and has very personal meanings to her. There were some supernatural phenoma involved in her recovery from ovarian cancer, I hope to have a full article about the subject posted on www.hornbostelfamily.com someday.
The wall - My dad was walking around the church, looks at the stone wall and thinks, "This is just like the cancer - it's huge." And the Spirit speaks to him, and says: "Don't look at the wall, look up at me." And he looks up, and observes the vastness of the sky, and remembers how much bigger God is than all our problems in this world. He tells us about the experience. Then, for whatever reason, we visited Lakewood that week. Joel Osteen said in his sermon: "When you get to a wall, don't look at the wall - look up at Jesus." And we were like, WHOA. Another of those "coincidences" that happen constantly among Spirit-filled Christians, I guess.
The Eagle painting is based on a song by Hillsong Hope that Mom really liked, with the verse "When the oceans rise, and thunders roar/I will soar with you above the storm/Father you are king over the flood/I will be still, know You are God". Here I have Mom being carried out of a storm by an eagle, which is a common symbol for prayer and intercession.
Book of Psalms: "The son of righteousness will come with healing in his wings; And you will be as a calf skipping from its stall" - word spoken over Mom by prophets in Kansas City, who revealed a great many things, that she would be healed gradually through conventional means, not a miracle, that the path would be like a rollercoaster, with loads of positive and negative surprises, etc. All the statements have proven increasingly accurate over time. The verse spoken, and its comparison between Mom and a calf, is interesting in several ways beyond its obvious meaning - "Skip" was Mom's nickname (the person hadn't known this about her), and like Mom was at that time, veal calves are severely anemic.
An image Scott recieved while on the flight to Kansas City of an angel performing surgery on Mom, with a voice speaking the following Scripture: "My word is sharper than any two-edged sword, dividing bone and marrow." (Scriptures on this page are paraphrased)
I've now had not one but TWO people contact her as a result of this page, two very worried people, so I think now I should make clear that, yes, Margaret is in remission and has been for a long while. She does not have cancer anymore and is perfectly fine.
Inspired by the inscrutable description on the DRC release schedule page - "Ae'gura aquarium." I decided to paint what I imagine a D'ni aquarium/zoo exhibit might look like - After the DRC puts their usual meaningless traffic cones into it, of course.
The Path - a 4X5 inch painting of an unknown world.
A painting of the view from an inhabited moon orbiting a gas giant.
