Why Am I Here at This Time?

 

2000, 39"h x 26"w x 6"d

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The Story

This piece is divided into three parts----the biblical past, the present and the future.

  1. Top left, Adam under the tree of knowledge ready to eat the apple.

  2. Moses at the Red Sea

  3. Finally, the Crucifixion of Christ-To be followed by the Resurrection. Top right, the well known cloned Dolly—with DNA strands bundled nearby.

Connecting 2. and 3. together, are:

1.  Pieces of matzo commemorating the flight from Egyptand the last Passover meal of Christ. 

2. The prediction that man will be traveling to other planets, illustrated by the footprint on the moon – and the black monoliths of 2001.

3. Future man viewing himself in an electronic device that will insert his brain in the surrounding robots, the first step to immortality.

Finally the viewer is placed in the center (HERE) and views his image through the fetus, Symbolism of the potential answers to the question---Why am I HERE----at this time?  Scattered in the center—

  1. Chance—dice show snake eyes (connection with serpent/apple).

  2. Prophecy—fortune cookies and Nostrademus.

  3. DNA –the fundamental requirement for life past, present and future.

AHH-yes, the roulette wheel—is life a game of chance?

The fortune cookies, lower left, symbolism for the prophecy of the Christ saga.

 

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