Garden of Roses A2: “Behold, I Come Quickly” by Grace Mantle, 2024

$2,400…Multimedia: Cyanotype on watercolor paper w/ wool & cotton embroidery, silver & glass beads; Frame is laser-cut plywood w/gesso, genuine silver leaf, paint, shellac, metals, wax, bitumen of Judea, museum-grade plexiglass... 20”Round, 23” w/ chain, 2” D

The Holy Spirit guided me step by step through inner vision in the design & many of the processes of this second “rose”. As I was working on the frame, I distinctly felt the Holy Spirit moving in me regarding the nearness of the promised return of Yeshua, Jesus the Christ. Thus the clock references. An accidental discoloration of the plexiglass at “11:00” was almost corrected, until I felt that…No, this is an important part of the message. “It is the eleventh hour.” It is not given to me to know more detail of what this means, but I did connect strongly with the messages in Christine Watkin’s book “The Warning: Testimonies and Prophecies of the Illumination of Conscience ”, and in Immaculee Ilibagiza’s books & CD about Segatashya, the Rwandan boy who met Jesus. I became aware of both of these authors during the process of making this work. The Lord likes to tell his people what he is doing, and it seems to me that he is doing so.