Guardian No. 2

Abstract Acrylic Framed)
42x42
2025

Angels are pure spirits, they have no body. Therefore, how does the angel move? The angel moves by its will. It decides to be somewhere, and it is there, instantly. And how is it that the angel is ‘there’? It connects in a mysterious fashion, metaphysically, to the space and its inhabitants. It is not displacing space, but connected to it, somehow part of it. I’ll let my main man Tommy tell you about it:

“It is befitting an angel to be in a place; yet an angel and a body are said to be in a place in quite a different sense. … an angel is said to be in a corporeal place by application of the angelic power in any manner whatever to any place. … Accordingly there is no need for saying that an angel can be deemed commensurate with a place, or that he occupies a space in the continuous; for this is proper to a located body which is endowed with dimensive quantity. … In the same way an angel is said to be in a place which is corporeal, not as the thing contained, but as somehow containing it.”

St. Thomas Aquinas

Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars, Q. 52: The angels in relation to place

I have spoken to you about why I chose the colors in these new Guardian paintings in previous articles, but not the composition. Space. To be straightforward, I have no idea what I am talking about regarding the composition of these paintings. I am transparently stupid on how these works manifest.

I cannot produce evidence to anyone that the paintings I am presenting to you today are The Portraits of Guardian Angels. There is no clues to show you the guidance upon my hands by celestial Angels.

If you believe, you know what’s what. You tell me.