THIS PAINTING IS A RESULT OF MY MEDITATIONS OVER THE STATE OF ORGANIZED CHRISTIANITY. THE CHURCH'S PROPENSITY FOR THE RETURN TO TEMPLE WORSHIP HAS INCASED IT IN RIGID STRUCTURES AND DOGMAS THAT ARE MORE AKIN TO THE TRADITIONS OF THE WORLD, WHICH THE CHURCH CLAIMS TO TRANSCEND, THAN TO THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST. POWER POLITICS HAS ENTERED THE SANCTUARY AS INDICATED BY THE CHESS BOARD.

KINGS, QUEENS, BISHOPS , KNIGHTS AND PAWNS STRUGGLE FOR DOMINANCE. THE WHOLE THING SITS ON THE OCEAN FLOOR, INDICATING A STATE OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS.
IN HERMAN MELVIL'S NOVEL "MOBY DICK", THE GREAT WHITE WHALE WAS A SYMBOL FOR THE INDOMINABLE POWER OF GOD. THE WHALE IS ON A MISSION, HE IS CHASING A SCHOOL OF FISH INTO THE NET WHICH IS UNFURLED AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS. ALL OF THE BEAUTIFUL STRUCTURES AND POWERFUL INSTITUTIONS OF MAN'S HAND ARE OF LITTLE VALUE IF THEY DO NOT SERVE THIS MISSION, AND IF THEY STAND IN THE WAY THEY WILL BE BROKEN TO PIECES AND BETTER FORMS WILL APPEAR. BUT IN THE GARDEN OF MAN'S INNOCENCE THERE IS A SERPENT AND THAT OTHER TREE, AND DIFFICULTIES.