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G534A Insomnia Due To Impending Sacrifice
Oil on canvas panel
Sep to Dec 2012, Size 250x200 mm
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G534A Insomnia Due To Impending Sacrifice
Oil on canvas panel Sep to Dec 2012, Size 250x200 mm |
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About this painting
An idea about anxiety. This was originally about the idea of being torn between the love of two women, one practical and one impractical, although much of this concept was toned down to represent the fundamental feeling of a night of worry and turmoil. At the last moment I added the two Aramaic symbols to provide a clue to the original idea of a choice between two outcomes.
The image is one of the Sacrifice of Isaac, a biblical take where God orders Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac upon a mountain. The sheep and storm refer to this, and the figure is indeed lying not on a bed but a stone altar (those familiar with the sacrifice of Aslan in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe may recognise C.S. Lewis' similar references). |
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Technical details
Technically, I created a painted clay for this, and (storm and lamb aside) staged the scene as painted. The clay model features holes for pens, thus becoming a sacrificial pen or pencil holder. The frame was made from pine, charred to blackness and beyond to carbon to reinforce the mood of the source material - it is lightning which has singed the frame. The exterior frame was darkened and dusted to emulate the dark brown look of masterworks from the Northern Renaissance.
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