Images On Christ :: The Purpose of Images On Christ

Images On Christ Project by Daneil Bonnell

A Prayer by Daniel Bonnell

Jesus, please deliver us from the predictable. Teach us something new, something beyond the boring representational image that makes us feel good through its rendering. Teach us to see again like new born infants for the first time. Lead us unto a higher realm of seeing you and your Kingdom that we might grow.

We have not even begun to see your Kingdom as you would have us to. We are like blind fools that think we see everything correctly. Our sight is inverted and selfish. That which is up to us is actually down to you and that which is down to us is actually up to you. Forgive us Lord. Through the vision of your Holy Spirit take us beyond our limitations and ourselves. Allow us to enter into your light of awe—as a newborn to its Mother’s breast for the first time.To see you in your holy light of which we are but strangers to. A light of insight that awakens your grace in us. A light that brings healing into areas of our lives that we have been blind to. A light that is so profound that it contains a unique message for each of us as individuals—as on the road to Emmaus. Your redemption will allow us to see again with eyes of innocent children if we but only repent and surrender. Truly you would have us know, if you were not able to communicate such truth to us then you could not be who you claim to be. Amen

The Purpose of the Images On Christ Project

It is my desire to express through painting that this man named Jesus Christ was and is whom he claimed to be, the Son of God. We are not even able to begin to grasp what this means—the Son of God. It falls into the realm of mystery. His definition goes off the page. Our most lofty thought of who He is would be equal to trying to hit the moon with a rock. Yet he calls us His friend. As Billy Graham once said, “Jesus is the embodiment of truth itself.”

A few quotes on truth and art:

“A painting is a lie which tells the truth.
—Pablo Picasso

Great art is always religious—in the individual and not the institutional sense of the word. The nature of great art is to convey spiritual truths.
—Alexander Eliot

Nothing is so sure to make itself known as the truth, for what else waits to be known.
—Henry David Thoreau

Clumsiness indicates a struggle to put things down right, an honest effort to grasp the truth.
—Charles Hawthorne

In art, true art, we are not seeking to deceive.
—George Inness

The natural appetite or taste of the human mind is for truth.
—Sir Joshua Reynolds