War Cry

30in x40in Original piece is Acrylic on Gallery wrapped Canvas  1st Painting in the War Cry Series Isaiah 61, Isaiah 52: 6-7, Matthew 11:12, Luke 11:2, Colossians 2:10 This Painting came out of a series of encounters and features the original poem "War Cry" I wrote in Spring of 2018 as this series began to percolate in my heart. The Poem is inscribed on this piece as the flagship Painting and first in the series. As I child my companions and I were always playing at a scenario where one was the princess and everyone else fought to save this representation of the Beloved. Only as I child, I never got to be that girl. I always deeply wanted to be, tried a few times but always if I wanted to take part it was always as a fighter. Now as an adult woman looking back I reflected over this frequent childhood play scenario, I came to the realization that maybe my beauty wasn’t just made for gilded courts. While I am made to be fully alive as a woman fully herself standing tall with beauty and