Job - Where Were You?

"Where Were You?" 14 x 11 inches (includes frame) mixed media on mat-board

This is the first in a series of works based on the idea of the separation/connection between things. The concept that there is a place where one ends, and the next, or lack of the next begins. The place where one word becomes another or overlaps slightly. Where does a tree end and the sky begin? Where does one definition begin and end? What fits into the circle of the definition perfectly and completely and what fits only slightly, blurrily, vaguely, it lives on the fringe of where the circle ends (if it ends at all). Did God create persons/places/things as a definition to teach us and to show us Himself, or are they here primarily as an outflowing of his creativity, or are both correct?

This series exists more to ask questions and open up the imagination, than to be an answer or explanation.

This specific piece is titled "Where Were You?"

It's based on Job 38:4-11 (ESV).
⁴ “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you have understanding.
⁵ Who determined its measurements—surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
⁶ On what were its bases sunk,
or who laid its cornerstone,
⁷ when the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

⁸ “Or who shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb,
⁹ when I made clouds its garment
and thick darkness its swaddling band,
¹⁰ and prescribed limits for it
and set bars and doors,
¹¹ and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
and here shall your proud waves be stayed’? 

© Keith Brabender 2017