This is a short writing to accompany my artwork, my late identities, painted in 2018 as a part of a small collection of monochromatic paintings and photos. Hope you enjoy.

I literally shot the painting, the identity-boxes I made for myself.

Opinion gods, designed by me and the culture around me. Black and white and controlled. Clean edges, Babylon borders.

my late identities - 2018 - Durgan Maxey
30”x24”
acrylic painting with bullet holes
handmade, minimalist frame

Grace was given to reveal these boxes, cages around me.
To kill the old me and change the formations through mind-renewal, practice.

Bullet holes through the mold I was pressing into, a pattern of the world.

It’s not over, the fight for myself is still on. More boxes want to conform me. New boxes and old boxes, doesn’t matter.

Press on to transformation, and see the Holy Spirit at work. The old dead identities become planter boxes to let His Spirit-fruit overflow.

Music and writing you may want to explore if you connect to this art piece:

🎧Listen:
RUNAWAY - half•alive
Resurrection in You - Skye Peterson
Felix Culpa - Kings Kaleidoscope
Firstborn Son - Andrew Osenga

📖Read:
Gospel of Matthew - Chapter 16
Letter to the Romans - Chapter 8
Letter to the Romans - Chapter 14
Until Unity - Francis Chan
The Power to Change - Craig Groeschel
The Mortification of Sin - John Owen

my late identities

slow down, friend

Forgiveness/ /Consequences