Christian tumblr white background words8/16/2023 ![]() ![]() Bingham of Ohio, the primary author of the first section of the 14th Amendment, intended that the amendment also nationalize the Bill of Rights by making it binding upon the states. On July 28, 1868, the 14th amendment was declared, in a certificate of the Secretary of State, ratified by the necessary 28 of the 37 States, and became part of the supreme law of the land.Ĭongressman John A. On June 16, 1866, the House Joint Resolution proposing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution was submitted to the states. A major provision of the 14th Amendment was to grant citizenship to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” thereby granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people.Īnother equally important provision was the statement that “nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The right to due process of law and equal protection of the law now applied to both the federal and state governments. I hope you enjoyed this piece, the inspiration behind it, and a glimpse at her creative process as much as me.Following the Civil War, Congress submitted to the states three amendments as part of its Reconstruction program to guarantee equal civil and legal rights to Black citizens. Suzi teaches mixed media art in her studio, online, and in seminars. I do know how I want it to look….it’s there in my brain, I just need to make it happen…. I want to write the scripture and that is hard to do on torn paper….so….at this point, still giving it some thought. Now for the background….thinking of doing just some painting on this with a little paper. And I did it all by just laying down papers where I thought they should go! This was the piece I was going to see if I could do that with, and I have to tell you….I LOVED doing it!! This truly is what coloring outside the lines means.Īt this point I’m feeling pretty happy with the image. I’ve done it with “simple” images, hearts, flowers, etc. In other words, no drawing…just start laying down paper and see where it would go. I have always wanted to do a collage out of my head. Instantly I could see the angel in all his radiance and I knew I had to get it down.īut my method was the challenge, not the image. ![]() I could hear him asking me that as I sat there with tears on my face. There was one at the foot also but for some reason I was fixated with the one at the head, but the scripture says “They” said, "Woman, why are you weeping". I was in Church and my pastor was finishing up a sermon series on Biblical Femininity and he was talking about how, when the tomb was found empty, the guys all went back to the house, but Mary (the woman) stayed.Īnd then he read the verse about her looking into the tomb and there was an angel sitting at the head of the bed where Jesus had been. Everything in italics below is the words of the artist. Here are some excerpts, go to her link for the full story and all the photos of the artwork in process. In her blog post she details the inspiration and process for creating this piece: The mixed media college is 20″ X 16″ and the original is available for sale for $335. She saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying. And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.” When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. One of her new pieces is titled “Woman” referencing the question, “Woman, why are you weeping?” The question was asked by two angels of Mary Magdalene when she went to the tomb of Christ and found it empty. I deeply admire the mixed media art of Suzi Dennis who has the “Painted Papers Studio” in Hot Springs, Arkansas as well as online. ![]()
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