Mary Magdalene’s Dream
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This painting still needs a few touches. The photo is not great, but I wanted to share it because I had shared the drawing and beginning to the painting a while ago and it stayed waiting on my easel for a long time until this past Saturday
I was inspired by the traditional interpretation of Mary Magdalene washing Jesus’ feet with her tears and drying them with her hair.
In Luke 7:36-50, a woman described as a "sinner" washed Jesus' feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair at the home of Simon the Pharisee. She also kissed his feet and anointed them with expensive ointment.
This image is connected to the following Bible passage:
John 12:3
New International Version
3 Then Mary took about a pint[a] of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
This scene makes me imagine Mary Magdalene feeling great love and admiration, the overwhelming feeling of devotion growing so large that it pours out of her in her tears of emotion. She gives everything of herself through a gesture of selfless surrender.
If feel that Jesus is there in glorious body rather than in human form. This is a dream, a vision occurring within the Magdalene that penetrates her veil and transforms her own colors.
