"Divinity"

  • Title: Divinity
  • Artist: Danny Schreiber
  • Medium: oil on wood panel
  • Year: 2025
  • Size: 12 x 16 inch (30.48 x 40.64 cm)

This piece is about the act of longing—for clarity, for meaning, for something sacred. InDivinity, a single finger reaches upward toward a golden moon, suspended against a deep black void. The gesture is subtle but deliberate. It’s not a grasp, but a point—a recognition of something larger than the self. Acknowledging that we don’t always need to own something in order to be transformed by it.

Part of my ongoingOracles series, this work explores the intersection of spiritual hunger and the limitations of understanding. I’m interested in what it means to desire knowledge or transcendence in a world that often offers only partial answers. The hand, painted with anatomical precision, is grounded in flesh. The moon, almost impossibly luminous, represents the unreachable—an ancient symbol of the feminine, of intuition, of cycles that govern life below.

Divinity is not about resolution. It’s about the pause before comprehension, the breath before acceptance, the quiet moment when we dare to ask a question we know won’t be fully answered. Like many of my paintings, it deals with emotional inheritance and symbolic gesture. Here, the gesture is a kind of silent prayer.

This work isn’t about divinity as dogma. It’s about the human instinct to look upward and say, “I see you.” Even if we never quite touch it.

Rendered in oil with warm, natural tones and subtle textures, the painting seamlessly blends realism and symbolism, inviting reflection. Like many works in theOracles series, it leaves space for the viewer’s narrative to emerge.