I made these paintings on cardstock paper (forgive the curling) a couple years ago when we were worn from digging through and around different pitfalls, barriers and other discouragements in adoption. It seemed like the Enemy was winning in keeping the orphans from becoming family. Just thought I’d share. Don’t give up.:
We are the dot on the right. We are sending out beams of energy towards the orphans, who live in the brownness. One of the orphans has a yellow dot, signifying the one we’re bringing home. But there is a seemingly inpenetrable barrier between us with several layers.
Adoption painting – we are the heart in the top left corner. Darkness of loss is the bottom corner. The child we’re adopting is in the middle, surrounded by layer after layer, preventing us from getting to them. The darkness is trying to reach around our child as we try to get them out of the layers.
Can anybody tell me what word I was trying to write here? This is an acrylic painting… the crib symbolizing the crib our son was in and the future of most orphans with special needs. The word perhaps signifying adoption or redemption or family. The word is in Bulgarian.
Those are neat paintings. I really like the symbolism. Using a nifty Bulgarian virtual keyboard and Google translate, I came up with the word “acceptance” for the last painting. Does that sound familiar?
You know what? When I enter “adoption” in Google translate, it also comes up with the same Bulgarian word as your painting. That’s pretty neat that adoption and acceptance are synonyms in Bulgarian.
Carol…. that is amazing! I don’t remember which one I was looking for! I know I was thinking specifically about special needs adoption from orphanages, but didn’t know how to symbolize that. The bars of a crib are the future for many orphans with special needs… a home and a prison and a future. I wanted to put a word on top of that with hope of a different future… adoption and acceptance are beautiful meanings.
Those are beautiful!