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Passion may bring pleasure in its pursuit or quenching, but the Latin derivation from the word pati, meaning "to suffer and endure," gives a hint at the costs of deep and often blinding love.

Bill Moyers, the journalist, and Joseph Campbell, the comparative mythologist, discussed in The Power of Myth an old Persian story about Satan being God's greatest lover. So powerful was his devotion that when God created Man and told the angels to serve the new creature, Satan refused.

The punishment for his disobedience was eternal exile. There's really no need for a lake of fire when Hell is simply the absence of the Beloved.

Like John Milton's Paradise Lost or Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (upon which the musical Wicked was based), a change in perspective twists perception and offers insight--it inspires us to look twice at the ordinary and accepted, and it ultimately develops our compassion, or abiltity to "suffer with," when we can imagine ourselves in the shoes of our so-called enemies.

This 32" x 12" diptych (two-part painting) captures the moment of an angel's fall--a casualty of war from one side or the other--his eyes focusing on a golden Heaven as he plummets farther from it. Wings of light and fiery color, influenced by Islamic art, spread in submission even while his deep blue halo brings in the earthly night.

"Tumbling for You" is ready to hang without a frame due to the classic black 0.5" sides.

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*mertonparrish Jul 13, 2008
love the painting and the description.
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~IvanChanStudio Jul 13, 2008
Thank you, Merton.

Take care,

I.
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~ShadowFalcon89 Mar 18, 2008  Student Traditional Artist
hell-->"absence of the beloved' wow :shrug:... great painting Ivan. such sad and yet, true words.
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~IvanChanStudio Mar 18, 2008
Thank you, ShadowFalcon89.

It's a beautiful and tragic story when you think about it; not so much an action story with good and evil, but perhaps a tale that shows us our own strengths and weaknesses, and how that shapes our place in the world.

Take care,

I.
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~kc5mipYogie Mar 18, 2008
wow. its so colerfull picture and so vivid :)
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~IvanChanStudio Mar 18, 2008
Thanks!

I.
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*Hermetic-Wings Mar 18, 2008  Hobbyist Photographer
ı never heard about the pesian myth... But I like it...a refused lover can do everything...
Tonight I have a porblem. I can not open the submsissions on fullview!But I can see the vivid coloured wings and impressive face of the object and lşke şt too much...thanks for sharing!
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~IvanChanStudio Mar 18, 2008
Hm...it's working for me. Try it again later and if you still have a problem, maybe check in with DA? It's probably just temporary...

Take care,

I.
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*Hermetic-Wings Mar 19, 2008  Hobbyist Photographer
now it is working for me too...So I can notice the impression of his face thank you for sharing!
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~IvanChanStudio Mar 19, 2008
You're welcome--I'm glad it's working for you now!

Take care,

I.
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