Recycled Holy Instant

by Tamantha Williams

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$2,500

Dimensions

90.000 x 60.000 x 1.000 cm.

Title

Recycled Holy Instant

Artist

Tamantha Williams

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

The heart of this painting starts 30 years back. I have kept this brief. I was involved in a head-on collision losing a dear friend of many in the process, his chest being crushed in the accident, this was someone who I loved and so too many others. It was an immense emotional struggle, I lost love. I lost a sense of the meaning of life and hated and blamed God for many years. My only physical 'damage' was my hand but emotionally I was lost. This was a Conflict within, (see artwork below in post) and I laid it at Times feet to deal with.
Fast forward 30 years. I found myself on a spiritual journey with ACIM, in which expressing love is a key element. The focus. This was a struggle. I started questioning God, what is this love you speak of? I know it is not earthly love, the one which demands sacrifice and is preloaded with expectation. If I don't know it, how do I express it? Now there is a lot more to this story but as this is a brief synopsis I will try to keep it brief. This year in the middle of Covid, my dear friend rolled her car, her only true body damage after writing off her car, was her hand.
Here is the interesting part...
That same night I dreamt for what felt like forever of a love I cannot describe, it was a mixture of light and movement and oneness I have never fealt. The dream contained a friend of mine, at a stage it felt intimate and I felt uncomfortable, I was immediately soothed, reassured to be at peace and allow all to be. I 'held' on to her, though I could feel no physicality just oneness, it was gentle yet energetic, all-encompassing, and what felt like an eternity in a second. I was in her, around her, i felt movement as if on a round-about, and with her, observing her and holding her simultaneously - my focus was her chest area. Then it stopped as if it was 'done'. I woke up immediately, 1,20am, my heart was racing. I went to the bathroom as I was perplexed by it, then realized who the lady friend was and thought I would inform her in the morning of this strange dream - at this stage, I had no idea that she had had an accident.
The artwork was born. I was guided to refer to a recycled artwork I had done many years back as a reference for this piece. I did not understand why the recycled art piece until I put 2 and 2 together, my accident, and hers, my hand and hers, and then I was questioned: "Who held you in your accident 30 years back?".
What I felt in that dream was 'a sense of actual escape from limitations... a sudden unawareness of the body, and a joining of yourself and something else, in which your mind enlarges to encompass it. It becomes a part of you as you unite with it.'. I had experienced a love I cannot explain, 'The love that instantly replaces, it extends to what has freed you, and unites you with it. You have escaped from fear to peace..... and have let yourself be one with something beyond it, simply by not letting your mind be limited by it.' I had come 'face to face' with love, not merely my friend but the power of love beyond the littleness we ascribe to it... 'And so you rush to meet it, letting your limits melt away, suspending all the 'laws' your body obeys and gently setting them aside.' This was truly the 'lifting of the barriers of time and space' and it was only possible because I WANTED to know what is the love spoken of. I had that one desire, for if I was to express love, how could I know... and so this Recycled Holy instant came about, 'It calls to you to be yourself, within its safe embrace... peace will join you there, simply because you have been willing to let go the limits you have placed on love, and joined it where it is and where it led you'
I asked, I was answered.
'I do not seek
the things of time, and so I will not look
upon them. What I seek today transcends
all laws of time and things perceived in time.
I would forget all things except Your love.
I would abide in You and know no laws
except Your law of love.'
The painting includes lilies, we know how they reflect on Easter Sunday the crucifixion and resurrection but they too point to purity, innocence, and forgiveness, we have a treasure trove of these to give, we just need to drop our defenses, step forward in love and not back in fear. 'Each lily of forgiveness offers all the world the silent miracle of love.'
ACIM

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