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The Birth of the New

2014, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 36 X 75, by Jenny Badger Sultan

Painting titled 'The Birth of the New', by Jenny Badger Sultan. Click to enlarge

This painting comes from a dream, May 10, 2014

I go into a building. There is a very tall room. One wall is glass and you can see outside. Lots of people are crowding around behind me. We are all looking out the glass at a steep hillside. Then I notice that the crowd beside me has melted away; only a few of us remain. The scene outside changes--it is dirt, with some trees and other plants.

There are some primates moving around on the hillside. They are very close to being human. They are doing all kinds of things--playing, having erotic encounters, moving all over the hillside.

Then there is the feeling (or a voice saying) that something extraordinary is about to happen--the emergence of a new being. This is different than the birth of Christ.

I watch as the dirt on the hillside begins to move and take shape. It’s not clear what it is. I almost anticipate that it is the head of a huge serpent and a human baby will emerge from it. I don’t actually see that, however, only the beginnings.

Detail of painting 'The Birth of the New', by Jenny Badger Sultan. Click to enlarge


Detail of painting 'The Birth of the New', by Jenny Badger Sultan. Click to enlarge
Gorilla and Grandchild
Detail of painting 'The Birth of the New', by Jenny Badger Sultan. Click to enlarge
Monkeys grooming
This image is in very sad memory of Kabibe, the 16 month-old baby gorilla who was crushed to death by a hydraulic door at the San Francisco Zoo. Her name means “little lady” in Swahili. Her mother didn’t want to care for her, so the keepers nurtured her until she was 6 months old. She then joined the gorilla group and became inseparable from her grandmother, Bawang. My friend took a photo of the two of them sitting together.
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