©2008. Worlds Thru Ink, Ron Jones
Date Completed: 1998
Original Size: 18x24"
Frame: n/a
Price of Original: NFS
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ARTIST'S DESCRIPTION OF PIECE
1998

When the power of the Holy Spirit invades your being the results can be unimaginable. At the time I began creating this piece my life was coming closer and closer to Christ. In turn it was falling apart and in extreme emotional and financial chaos.

I had proposed to "Destiny" in Chapter #5 yet now we had split apart as a couple but still had a ‘here and there’ friendship that continued. I moved out of an apartment with a roommate and into a smaller apartment on my own across town. My vehicle at the time was a 1979 Dodge Ram Van that was awesome. It had been in the family for almost 20 years and was totally unreliable. Being on my own and now living in a ‘not so positive’ part of town I started to make friends that I knew were a bad influence. I spent lots of money on stupid stuff. I started smoking way too much ‘greenage’. I was still on my walk towards Christ yet I was freaking out because I began to actually realize this walk happening in my life.

This Christ thing really began to scare the hell out of me!

John Bishop of Living Hope Church always references some of the ugly in our past. The past is there. It will always be there. You can never forget it, but you can move away from it. Moving away from it was proving difficult for me at this point in my life. The hell was being scared out of me but for some reason I was holding onto this hell and I couldn’t let it go.

In my depths I have always had a positive attitude about who I am and what I am. There were so many times that I had given up on this self confidence I possessed, but it was the deepness at my core that prevented me from doing anything foolish in these rough times. Below is my definition of this first line of poetry.

             

These two images in my mind symbolize both the Canal of Birth and the Genders of Worth. They are set on either side of the main image, which is that of Christ and the cross to represent that it is ultimately the Lord that decides which gender of worth you will actually become. The gender symbol of the male is on the right side of this image of Christ because the Bible tells us that man will ultimately someday sit at the right hand of God.

This poetry is defined using the Cross placed in the center of the image.

In reference to the world at the bottom of the cross I also split the planet to symbolize my struggle with following Christ or following Ron. The split planet is at the end of each arm of the cross. There is also a direct relation to Mean within this gateway. Surrounding the cross there are 6 black stars in the upper portion and 6 black stars in the lower portion. There are also 6 white stars with in the cross itself. 666. There are also 3 numerals in 666.

The cross represents Christ and you can see the smaller stars contained within the cross. This defines the beyond. Another clue to this as the Gateway is the size change in the stars compared to the same star design in the Heavens outside of the cross. Also the stars within the cross are white and outside the cross are black. This defines the fact that the spiritual realm is both good and evil. This is my current battle. This is why the flames are black and they extend towards the black stars.

Breaking down the 666 there are 2 sets of black stars and a single set of white stars. This defines the relationship of what I am dealing with at this time in my life. At this moment Satan has a stronger hold on my being. My mind is split between the two… wanting, praying, hoping that a stronger link to Christ will be the result.

The world at the bottom of the Cross represents the Gate that we use to enter this life with Christ. It is through the ways of the world that one learns and realizes that Christ is the path of righteousness. This planet image is colored in a way to express the transparency of the Spirit of Christ. The design is created by filling in the opposite of Black and White on either side of the cross line. Here is a blow up of that clarity I tried to portray.

Being in touch with reality means being in touch with the real world. Although everyone’s world is very different we are all sinners and linked in unison to that sin. Our sins may be different but they are viewed the same by the grace of God. The sins of the world are what I am struggling with at this time. I know that I will always struggle with this type of world pressure, but at the time I was creating this original I was deep into worldly ways. This link is described in the upper portion of this work using 8 different worlds and 9 different linking line work seen here.

Notice there are stars in the upper Heavens portion but not in the lower Heavens. My stars are links to Heavenly bodies and since I hadn’t made the spiritual connection from my worldly ways to my walk with Christ I didn’t place any stars in my worldly Heavens. What I did do is place the Gender symbols within a star like pattern. This is the subconscious/before birth link of my world to that of my Spirituality. The symbols are male/female, but are represented as before birth. This separation of the stars is also the reason why the flaming stars are so large in the lower/worldly realm and smaller in the upper/Spiritual realm. It shows the fact that I was closer and so connected to the ways of Ron.

I used the line pattern that I learned from ‘Destiny’ to divide this piece into the worldly and spiritual portions of space. ‘Destiny’ was my link between the two realms. Here is an example of the division using this line pattern as well as the size difference of the flaming stars.

This block pattern is such the guiding direction that I needed to be on to reach my goal of walking more closely with Christ and the Godly ways of life. These are like steps leading me upward towards grace. These checkerboard steps are also the beginning of the direct relation of this image to Mean. The entire piece is based on definitions from the poem I wrote. The poem reads from Top to Bottom. The image is described and drawn from Bottom to Top.

"Christian Creation" was designed to begin the process of my healing from a past that was constantly driving me into the ground. I needed a way for Ron to get out and a way for Christ to come in. I still didn’t have the answers to all my questions but at least I now had a foundation that may lead my thoughts and ways towards a more positive existence.

My past is in the past. I’m now going to do my best at creating a future that will make me more Christ like so that I can be proud once that future is again in the past.

During the creation of this chapter I was listening to a specific CD. The main inspiration that I listened to was the music of Mannheim Steamrollers album “Fresh Aire 7”. This music and the descriptions and definitions of this album were a huge enlightenment to my work. My entire line of ink images would be based on the principles of this album. Maybe that’s why Mannheim Steamroller is my largest collection. Of my entire music collection the music of Chip Davis was the first I had ever really paid any attention. I first heard his mystical rhythms in 1979 when my cousin Greg would play it extremely loud on his record player. The album was Fresh Aire 1 and the track title was Chocolate Fudge.

Here is the illustration on the album cover for Fresh Aire 7. It is the 1 st album by Mannheim Steamroller that featured a single numeral as the artwork that related to the title.

Here is a picture of the images that are on the front of the CD itself. Hmmmm. Not only are there Squares and Spheres but there are 4 of each. Also notice that of these 8 images only one is bolded to stand out among the others. It is a square, which is the basis of my checkerboard patterns. So that leaves 7 images relating to the album title. If Chip Davis is going into this depth then I will definitely follow.

“FOR THOSE WHO STILL LIKE TO READ OR SAVE THIS PART FOR THE BEACH”.

Chip then explains in great detail his connection to the album and the numeral 7. He talks about doorways (Gateways) and the links from previous albums to this one. He also does extreme in depth studies of the Rainbow and how the spectrum of colors relates to musical tones. These links are a direct relation to what I am creating with my ink works.

“As we move thru life, these desires can change in intensity and importance on our own cosmic priority list, colouring our souls and leaving us with our own distinctive scent of being”.

These words of Chip Davis inspired me to look deep into myself as a human being and a body of Christ. I looked so deep that I found things that I had locked away for years. Some of these histories of Ron were not so positive. For some reason I thought that these negatives were Me. That these experiences had molded my soul and had created a Ron that couldn’t be changed.

So I drifted. I drifted away from family, from good influential friends, from my job, and totally away from my walk with Christ. I seemed to know exactly where I wanted to go with my life. I just had no idea why.