Description

Painting Title: Willfully and Wonderfully Made

Original: 16″x 20″, acrylic on canvas board

Artist: Amberose Marie Micallef

This painting is to memorialize all the innocent babies lost in the most vulnerable stages of life. Whether lost through an ectopic pregnancy, a miscarriage, a stillbirth, a neonatal death or an abortion, each baby is willfully and wonderfully made. From the moment of conception each child has a distinctive DNA of its own. No matter the age, gender, race or ethnicity every baby is uniquely made just like the beautiful flowers of springtime.

At first, when looking at this painting the eye is drawn to a third trimester baby embraced by the loving hands of his Mother. Surrounding this precious child in the womb is a garden of flowers in hues of every color in the rainbow. God gifted us the beautiful rainbow after the great flood. The rainbow is a sign of hope, a symbol of God’s mercy and a mark of God’s infinite love for us.

Falling from the sky are babies gently cradled in flower petals. Each baby is at a different gestational age of development from zygote, to blastocyst, to embryo, to fetus. Every unborn baby in the womb has an irreplaceable purpose even if its developmental stage and life span was significantly younger than the average human being. God has willfully and wonderfully created each human being in the womb with an essence, a life and a soul.

I dedicated this painting in memory of my first child, Jael Marie, and to all babies lost in the earliest stages of life.