“When Truth Seems in Short Supply”

This painting was created for the Chapel Gallery’s autumn exhibition that focused on the life of the Bibilcal figure, Jacob. The highly metaphorical piece points to the "social landscape" of Jacob and in particular the challenge of deceit and falsehood that seemed to invade his life many times. Despite the lack of truth and the deceiving world around him (Jacob was both a deceiver at times and a victim of deceit), God was in control and working out his grand plan of redemption.  At the center of Jacob’s “life-landscape” is Joseph's coat of many colors that his brothers tore and spotted with blood in order to deceive their father, Jacob. This is such a disheartening event; yet in the end, the divine redemptive hand of grace reveals itself as Joseph attests in Gen. 50:20 — “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive today.”