New painting for the exhibit

A couple of nights ago my intuition directed me towards working on this one particular painting that I did not completely know if it was to be for the Crucifixion exhibit or not.  This morning I realized that it has to be.  There is this image of a woman's face that came out while I had one of the first sessions on the painting months ago.  For some reason I kept this particular painting out in plain view of my sight while working on other pieces.  This I usually do not do.  A couple of nights ago I had the urge,  out of now where,  to work on this piece.  The face intrigued me the most and I usually do not do life like paintings especially of faces.  I was able to paint a face with many emotions ranging from,  sorrow to subdued pain to contempt with a little bit of a smile of hope.  Getting the eyes just right was not necessarily the biggest challenge but the most interesting one that kept me intrigued the whole time.  The image of the face,  which I have come to call the Feminine,  floats above what looks like a landscape of crosses that appear to be crucifying the earth.  It has strong elements of fire and turmoil within the landscape as well as being able to see below it into and underneath what we might only see on the surface.  As if to say that not only has organized religion crucified the feminine but the planet she lives on as well.