GIFTS Vs. CURSES IN THE LAND OF EDEN
Since man has walked the Earth, the Land of Eden was the source of almost all of humanity's gifts. However, greed and envy showered this blessed land with all kinds of evil and suffering. It would seem as if this holy land is cursed!
I cannot understand how it could wars and misery take
place in this ancient land that painted for the entire world the blueprint
of civilization!
How it could the beauty of
knowledge be in the same pot with the ugliness of violations against the
basic foundations of human rights?
Watching what the forces of evil are doing to ruin the land of Eden, especially within the more recent decades, is giving me endless heartache. It seems that the imaginary powers of the mythical deities Enki and Enlil are pointlessly struggling since the great flood of Utnapishtim[1] until now. It also seems that we, the artists, have to put an end to this chaos!
The technique used in achieving this artwork is a mix of oil, woodcut, and mixed media, while the pictograph signs Kur (displacement & hell) and Mash (intersection) were backed with two deities' pictorial symbols (Ea and Enlil). The background composition is also derived from a Logogramic sign that symbolizes Kish (the land or universe).
Subject: No More Paradise
Technique: Oil,
Woodcut & Mixed-Media
Measurements: 50 x
50 Cm | 19.68 x 19.68 Inches
Date: 1994
Price: $20,000
[1]
Utnapishtim is the
Babylonian Noah, who was instructed by the god Ea/Enki to save humanity and all
the world's specie from the great flood forced on Eart by the god Enlil. This
mythical event was part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, regarded as the earliest surviving
notable literature.
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