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Jacob on the Mountain - 48 x 60 - oil on canvas
Jacob on the Mountain has always been one of my favorite paintings. Done fairly early in a recent series of work, it
seems to embody a serenity and impenetrable mystery that is truly astonishing. Jacob's face is a mask of universality and
wonder symbolic of every man. In my novel, The Third Testament, from which the subject is directly drawn, Jacob finds himself
in a messianic role for which he is not necessarily prepared. As an epic struggle between good and evil builds, he walks
out on a mountain where he is struck by a strange tranquility and rapture. Messengers of a calling are present in the form
of an insect and a red flower. Jacob sits, and we are transported into his world of wholeness and unity by the painting
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