Recently I was reading in a book that talked about how relational God was, he refers to himself as a shepherd and a father and a groom to the church. I've explored some of these relationships with previous paintings. I'd never explored what it looks like for Christ to be our Groom. As I thought of how to portray this I scraped the idea of the wedding day, as it would look very western. I think the idea of marriage as a relationship is one where the person sees you as you are, you are vulnerable, loved, accepted. This is what I strove to capture here.
This is probably the riskiest painting I've done, I didn't do it to be inflammatory. I just thought that clothes came with the fall, with sin, clothes were not worn in the garden. I thought they got in the way of the message which is why the couple is portrayed as they are.
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