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Based on 1 Kings 17:6, this piece was inspired by the account of the ravens feeding Elijah. Given the fact that ravens have been known to steal food from animals, even tag-teaming the ‘victim’ to get their prize, it is a miracle that they would bring Elijah bread and meat in the morning and evening:
“And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word.”
2 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, 3 “Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. 4 And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
5 So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and stayed by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook. 7 And it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.” – 1 Kings 17:1-7
This piece is mixed media on a nested board: pages from a 1933 dentist’s journal and a print of a Russian currency bill. Acrylic and silver pigment.
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