Ascent: Descent
Douglas Ivan Thompson
- Medium
United States
ca. 2019
Watercolor and pencil on paper
“It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you” (John 16:7). In Ascent: Descent, “the all-too-human Apostles [reach after the resurrected Christ] as if to bring Him back,” said Thompson. “In the distance a storm gathers, foreshadowing the trials and persecutions that would follow. The shadows of the evening creep across the landscape as the night comes on. Yet, unseen by the Apostles, the symbol of the Holy Ghost descends, soon to endow [them] with the power they require to continue the work of the Lord.” 2000