Genesis 1:5

 

Harold Emerson Keeler

  1905 - 1968 (biography)

1962  

color lithograph 

20 1/4 x 15" image and paper size 

pencil, in image, upper right 

5 of 20  

pencil titled, in image, upper center; pencil editioned in image, upper left; Tamarind chop, lower center at bottom edge. 

Tamarind 481 

buff BFK Rives wove 

published 

artist and Tamarind Workshop (chop in lower center) 

LIBU131 

$500.00 

The biblical passage Genesis 1:5 refers to the creation of the world, Chapter 1, verse 5 that loosely translates to 'God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day.' The black gestural drawing surrounding the red disc at the center of the image suggests the sun’s kinetic energy. Keeler created explosive movement around a red ball, thus presenting the genesis of our planet. Gasses and dust particles swirl around a young developing sun, which eventually form planet Earth and her moon after countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing planets.