©2008. Worlds Thru Ink, Ron Jones
Date Completed: 1999
Original Size: 18x24"
Frame: n/a
Price of Original: NFS
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ARTIST'S DESCRIPTION OF PIECE
1999

This ink drawing was designed during an extremely negative period of my life. Chapter #7, “Christian Creation”, had helped me redefine my being as a soul of the all-loving God. This connection of my reality to my spirituality in Chapter #7 scared me so much that I immediately pulled myself away from this realization. My life was mine and I liked the way it was going, so I thought. Although I was still attending Church I was actually pretending to follow the Christian path. I had separated myself so distinctly that I defined this distancing in Chapter #8 titled “Drift”. Now I am free! Free to make my own choices. Free to do what I felt was necessary to keep my life controllable. What I didn’t realize at this time was that this freedom comes with a high price. So I began to make payments on this high price to this one entity that was always around to collect. His official name is Lucifer.

The main image in this work is my interpretation of the one and only Satan. Many who have seen this image have defined it as a Jester because of the 4 rings that are attached at the tips of the arms or legs in my opinion. For me personally it needed to resemble the image of a Spider though a Jester is a link as well.

JESTER
“One who jests; specifically, a medieval cort fool.”
Medieval…..Med-evil.

My Story of the 8-Legged Spider

As a 6 year old I was living in Ventura, CA and our house had a nice sized backyard. Dividing the yard from the patio was a 3-foot hedge with a small opening for one to walk through. One day I was playing with a friend on the patio and I hadn’t noticed that a huge garden spider had woven its web across this small opening in the hedge…and I ran through it. So there I was standing in the middle of our backyard staring at the largest most evil looking insect I had ever seen and it was stuck to the middle of my chest. Then this eight-legged hairy monster began to slowly walk up towards my neck. I was petrified! Frozen with no way out except for death by garden spider. My heart was beating so hard and fast that I figured it would shake the spider off. Yeah right. By this time my friend had noticed my periled state and took a small stick and flicked the evil being off of my chest. With a single stomp of my foot the tragedy was over.

Here it is now, 25 years later, and this sole event still haunts my thoughts. Why I was bringing this event and image back into this original drawing I had no clue. I do know that this drawing came forth during a time and place in my life where I was paying so much attention to the 3 main people in my world. Me, myself, and I.

I was searching so desperately for something yet I had no clue what it was. Day by day I would falter further into the depths of myself. I began to experiment with a variety of drugs that would place my mind on a more relaxed state of myself. The so-called friends that I had were leading me into a darkness that I seemed to enjoy. My money was flying around without the slightest acknowledgement of any responsibility. I was now officially lost.

This main image was preventing my soul from moving forward into the arms of Christ. In previous chapters I defined my being connected to reality using the concept of the planets. Well, Lucifer was in total control of my planet and I explained that using the image of this ‘Jester’ taunting me around. Joking and exploiting my soul like it was his to do with what he wanted. He was holding on to me so tight yet this connection between Him and I was still very delicate. His hold is always delicate given that once you come back to the arms of God this Lucifer has no more grip on your soul. I defined this delicate hold by having My planet balancing so gently on these arms of Satan.

Notice the ‘Forked’ antennae or arms that My planet is resting. This is actually a direct link to Chapter #18 in reference to Satan. I also connected these antennae that grip the planet to the center or soul of this Lucifer image as seen below.

He even has an evil grin.

To demonstrate how this image of Satan is preventing me from entering the Gateway I placed his lower legs outside of the Gateway door.

The many tiny black and white spheres drawn within the Gateway border signify my continued confusion between good and evil.

How am I going to overcome this state of not moving forward? What’s going to happen if I don’t change my thoughts to those of a Christian life?

Unfortunately I do know what changed my path.
It’s known in these parts as Meth.

Those many who have tried
Those many who have died
They that hath not the mind
To concentrate and find
A better way…

I experimented once and only once. That’s all it took for me to understand the power this chemical diversion could have on the human mind. I lost 3 days. This overwhelming and uncontrollable energy came over me. I was totally wide-eyed and conscious for those 3 days. I accomplished basically nothing yet I had so much time to do everything. Then the high was gone and I slept for 2 additional days. I didn’t eat. I didn’t talk to anyone. I just slept and when I wasn’t sleeping I was just laying in bed staring off into nothing.

Once my thoughts and physical being came back from the dead there was only one thing that I felt like doing. I wept. The shortest verse in the Bible is Jesus wept. Was my life to be this short as well? It would have been, but I did still have one person that was still an influence in my life. Destiny. Through her prayers and friendship I was able to slowly crawl out of the deepest hole I had ever fallen into.

Then I realized I also had someone else that had promised to always be there for me whenever and whatever was going on in my life. Mom. I had been running for far too long and now it was time to come home and rethink my past and apply it to a better future. I asked for her help and she immediately offered to take me in. I’m 28 years old and now crawling on my knees to the one that may be able to save me.

My mom would save me physically and my God would save me spiritually.

Mom…Ron…God

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The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

                

During the creation of this chapter I was listening to a specific CD. The main inspiration that I listened to was the music of Gary Numan and the album titled “Exile”.

Gary Neuman
Gary ‘New Man’

You can definitely see the similarities between the main image in this work and the cover art to this album. Exile is a radical statement by Gary that defines his human nature as a man of God. In some songs he rebels extensively against God and in others he is asking for forgiveness and for the Lord to save him.

These pictures below are from the album and remind me of how I felt and what I was dealing with at this time of my existence.

         

I need help!!