The prodical son Medium: Gouache on paper Year: 2005 Size: 30x40 cm (11.75x15.75 cm) Owned by: For sale: 1500 NOK ($250.00). Unframed I made this gouache contemplating the analogy of the prodical son in the New Testament. One son gets an advance on his heratige and after spending it all on women and wine, he finds himself eating with pigs. Unable to face his father he endures as long as possible. But completely broken, he returns home to his father's house and beggs his forgiveness. Seeing his son return, the father calls for a fiest and forgives his son immidiately to the dismay of his other son who has followed his father's wishes all his life, and he cannot understand how his brother, who have sinned, is greeted with such love while he is ignored, thinking: "Father never threw a party like this for me." To me, this story illustrates one of the hardest aspects of life--To forgive those who offend us and not be judgemnetal or jellous. Both son's display the worst sides of human nature, while the father remanins constant and loving to all.