SYMBOLIC PAINTING "THE PROMISED LAND" - explanation of the artwork

While creating the painting "The Promised Land", I listened to the affirmations of the famous American teacher for personal growth, Louise Hay. I used to listen to inspiring music while creating.

The symbolic, abstract painting shows two dragonflies linked by a wreath of flowers and spring foliage, the WREATH OF VICTORY. They fly from a sunny, beautiful day to the PROMISED LAND, where it is even more beautiful! The portal to which they fly resembles a rich, special, supernatural rose flower; it is also reminiscent of a church stained glass window. A beautiful, blue river of iridescent colors flows from inside this stained glass window. This is a fountain of LIVING WATER, which represents the HOLY SPIRIT. The biblical parable for the Holy Spirit is also a "fountain of living water". In the picture you can see many spirals that represent INFINITY and ETERNAL LIFE. So the meaning of the image is multifaceted.

1. The first meaning is the parable of the human spirit in the form of dragonflies. It emphasizes the importance of renewing our mind, because a person can live beautifully and happily in this world only by cultivating beautiful, positive thoughts (affirmations) and thereby making himself and others around him happy. By renewing his spirit, a person "flies" from a beautiful to an even more beautiful life. We find the treasure we have been looking for within ourselves and thus arrive at the PROMISED LAND, an inner realm that is always accessible to us, regardless of our physical place of residence.

2. The second meaning is of a religious, transcendental nature. The Holy Spirit, who is depicted in the picture as a river of living water, pours upon us from the other world (the flow of the river from the portal). Our spirit aspires to the perfection of the Holy Spirit, just as dragonflies fly in the direction of the water that attracts them immensely to the PROMISED LAND. Like dragonflies, we fly towards God and can already feel His graces, gifts and blessings (drops from the river of living water). When we leave earthly life (and when the dragonflies enter the portal, calling to them with its beauty and innocence), we enter the PROMISED LAND. To a land without suffering, sorrow, fear, pain and death.

17 "For the Lamb that sits in the midst of the throne will feed them and lead them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes." (Revelation 7:17)

Eternal life awaits us there in the Holy Trinity (in the picture depicted in the form of a mountain with three peaks, which could also represent Triglav, the highest peak of our country - Slovenia).

Meti Brus