Still working on my "epoch". Heehee.

I've been working on the painting(s) some more... I am almost done with Utopia and Hell on Earth. I'm not feeling as emotional about it now. I think looking at all the pictures was worse that painting it. My German is bad on the gate to Auschwitz. Gotta fix that. I have come to realize lately that every age before us, at least as far back as Jerusalem, and on, has thought that their sin was going to end the world. Or that God was punishing them for their sins. In translating the things from the Bosch painting, it's all the same stuff. Greed, violence, idol worship, The Church involved in politics, greed, communing with idol worshipers, etc. (pictures here) Well, here it is in the year 2008 and we still think we're doing ourselves in. Maybe we are. Now the fear is possibly more real than before, considering nuclear weapons & destruction of Earth, but if most of us die the Earth will go on and eventually be fine. Some of us will survive. And multiply. And then books will be written about the meaning of life and God and all that and the world will keep going. Until we do ourselves in again. The most challenging thing sometimes is just to deal with the here and now. I'm trying NOT to look so much at the big picture. The little things in life that are right in front of me. It's amazing that every single person from the beginning of time each has their own personal story. It makes you feel like a grain of sand, even though our lives are such a big deal to us. I guess it's what's important. But it is fun doing this big painting.