Emotion Sickness, Original Framed Painting
Emotions are a roller coaster all their own. Sometimes I feel like I am my own amusement park in my head…Anyone else? Toxic thoughts can be our undoing if we let them.
In this painting, I wanted to visualize the winding and incoherent self-talk that is too easy to spiral into by representing them as roller coasters. Intertwined within them are snake bodies, long and winding between them. The enemy (Satan) likes to take advantage of our wandering thoughts. It can be helpful even just knowing that fact! If you don’t give those thoughts to God, there is opportunity for the enemy to toy with them.
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. -1 Peter 5:8-9
Instead, the girl is upheld by her faith. Jesus’ unchanging truth is a tether, lifting her into a steady float away from the vertigo caused by unraveling thoughts.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. -Hebrews 13:8
Aesthetically, there is more I can say about this painting. I chose pastels for the roller coaster against the black of the Victorian/pilgrim dress that she is wearing for a contrast, also adding to a “pastel goth” aesthetic. You could read this as the alluring candy-colored vision of the roller coaster representing thoughts and our own ability to solve our problems. We can be convinced that we can do it all ourselves. Yet the girl shows she is still suffering from bad thought patterns with her black dress.
The amusement park is abandoned and chaotic, swirled together where the ends of the coaster tracks don’t make sense. In fact, we cannot figure things out on our own!
The girl floats independent of this because she has Jesus (represented by the cross necklace close to her heart). He upholds her and gives her wings that are steadier than the winding roller coaster paths.
Emotions are a roller coaster all their own. Sometimes I feel like I am my own amusement park in my head…Anyone else? Toxic thoughts can be our undoing if we let them.
In this painting, I wanted to visualize the winding and incoherent self-talk that is too easy to spiral into by representing them as roller coasters. Intertwined within them are snake bodies, long and winding between them. The enemy (Satan) likes to take advantage of our wandering thoughts. It can be helpful even just knowing that fact! If you don’t give those thoughts to God, there is opportunity for the enemy to toy with them.
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. -1 Peter 5:8-9
Instead, the girl is upheld by her faith. Jesus’ unchanging truth is a tether, lifting her into a steady float away from the vertigo caused by unraveling thoughts.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. -Hebrews 13:8
Aesthetically, there is more I can say about this painting. I chose pastels for the roller coaster against the black of the Victorian/pilgrim dress that she is wearing for a contrast, also adding to a “pastel goth” aesthetic. You could read this as the alluring candy-colored vision of the roller coaster representing thoughts and our own ability to solve our problems. We can be convinced that we can do it all ourselves. Yet the girl shows she is still suffering from bad thought patterns with her black dress.
The amusement park is abandoned and chaotic, swirled together where the ends of the coaster tracks don’t make sense. In fact, we cannot figure things out on our own!
The girl floats independent of this because she has Jesus (represented by the cross necklace close to her heart). He upholds her and gives her wings that are steadier than the winding roller coaster paths.
Emotions are a roller coaster all their own. Sometimes I feel like I am my own amusement park in my head…Anyone else? Toxic thoughts can be our undoing if we let them.
In this painting, I wanted to visualize the winding and incoherent self-talk that is too easy to spiral into by representing them as roller coasters. Intertwined within them are snake bodies, long and winding between them. The enemy (Satan) likes to take advantage of our wandering thoughts. It can be helpful even just knowing that fact! If you don’t give those thoughts to God, there is opportunity for the enemy to toy with them.
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. -1 Peter 5:8-9
Instead, the girl is upheld by her faith. Jesus’ unchanging truth is a tether, lifting her into a steady float away from the vertigo caused by unraveling thoughts.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. -Hebrews 13:8
Aesthetically, there is more I can say about this painting. I chose pastels for the roller coaster against the black of the Victorian/pilgrim dress that she is wearing for a contrast, also adding to a “pastel goth” aesthetic. You could read this as the alluring candy-colored vision of the roller coaster representing thoughts and our own ability to solve our problems. We can be convinced that we can do it all ourselves. Yet the girl shows she is still suffering from bad thought patterns with her black dress.
The amusement park is abandoned and chaotic, swirled together where the ends of the coaster tracks don’t make sense. In fact, we cannot figure things out on our own!
The girl floats independent of this because she has Jesus (represented by the cross necklace close to her heart). He upholds her and gives her wings that are steadier than the winding roller coaster paths.
Painting Details
Oil paint on canvas with a matte varnish
Canvas measures 16” x 20” and 20” x 24” total with frame
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