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"The Fragrance of the Unseen", acrylic on gesso board, Bishop Maxim, 2025
She comes alone, the Myrrh-bearing Woman, shrouded in silence and shadow, to the tomb that held the Lifegiver. Her face, etched with both grief and urgency, leans toward the unknown—desperation in her steps, yet some flicker of hope already breaking through the morning’s stillness. The painting captures the very threshold of revelation: a moment suspended between loss and life, death and resurrection. Though she bears myrrh for a corpse, she unknowingly carries hope for the world. The canvas holds the indeterminacy of the moment—where despair and light meet, where she becomes, without knowing it yet, the first apostle of the Resurrection. This is the agony and beauty of Before the Dawn: the vibrant silence of a soul arriving at the tomb, not yet knowing that the stone has been rolled away.