Writing On The Wall

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A black insect like form hovers in a blood red and orange sky above a cool blue sea. What has this to do with the Writing on the Wall? While the colors and form combined within this oil painting may be visually stimulating the meaning behind this composition is even more so.

Writing on the Wall is a phrase used today within many languages and literature; and we have come to recognize it as an idiom of something obvious – And yet the oil painting named Writing on the Wall is anything but obvious: A clever play by the artist.

The idiom the writing on the wall comes from the book of Daniel – It refers to when a supernatural spirit wrote upon the wall while the Babylon King, Belshezzar, praised false gods using sacred vessels of silver and gold which had been taken from Solomon’s Temple: It foretold the fall of the Babylon Empire. The same night the King was murdered.

With this in mind the oil painting Writing on the Wall could represent a similar omen – In that if we do not take heed of the signs then too our empire might fall: This oil painting tells us to keep our eyes open and be aware of the signs – Not an insignificant reminder!