Original artwork description:

Semi-abstract oil painting on fine linen.

The title is based on the reflections of the artist regarding chaos and order. In Genesis 1:1, God creates the heavens and the earth and in Genesis 1:2, the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep.
There are various interpretations about whether or not God created the earth ex nihilo, or from an already existing 'deep'. The artist believes that as people move towards the divine, there is an increase in 'order'. The philosopher Bishop Berkeley suggested that 'esse est percipi', which means that to be is to be perceived. This could lead to a kind of solipsism, or it could be that what exists, exists in various states of order-creation/decline-chaos, which depends on your spiritual state. Putting these two together, the flux in our cosmos derives from our ability (or not) to meet God within it. The mountain either becomes something majestic where the soul can soar, or it can deconstruct and seem almost terrifying. It is all acutely personal.
Neuro-science now tells us that people who are in love register colours as far brighter and the responses in the brain are greater than people who are depressed, who tend to see in grey-scale. Quantum physics tells us that what appears to be fixed state objects, are not fixed at all in the conventional way. The mountainscape is almost sea-like, ondulating even, precisely to represent states of nature in dynamic, moving ways for this reason. The 'order' of things is in flux; not from perception alone but perhaps because everything is part of the relational quality of reality. Where we are in our relationship to God will define how we encounter nature. For Julia, what she wanted to impart to the client in this painting, is raw, majestic connection to God through the manifestation of His order, as a mountain range.

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Oil

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