On Earth as it is in Heaven

By A.Vonn Hartung

A giclee print of the original painting, "On Earth as it is in Heaven" by A. Vonn Hartung. The painting is rhetorical in concept and presents us with two possibilities: one in harmony with God’s Creation, a future of justice, peace, and sustainability. The other of plunder, chaos, endless war, and an ultimate collapse of nature and life on our planet, as we know it. Earth is depicted as an egg, symbolizing the fragility of its ecosystem and its natural abundance and fertility. The painting asks the viewer, each one of us, whatever our religion or beliefs, which future do we want to live in, leave to our children and future generations? This painting has recently been published in a Catholic textbook by St. Mary’s Press (The Church: Foundations and Mission by Carrie J. Schroeder).