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The prodical son
Medium: Gouache on paper
Year: 2005
Size: 30x40 cm (11.75x15.75 cm)
Owned by: For sale: 1500 NOK ($230.00). 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.
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Seascape 1
Medium: Gouache on paper
Year: 2005
Size: 14x21.6 cm (5.5x8.5 in
Owned by: Hvaler Resort, Norway
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Sunset
Medium: Gouache on paper
Year: 2005
Size: 21x29.7 cm (A4)
Owned by: For sale: 2900 NOK ($450.00). Price includes silver frame worth $119.00.
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Israel and Palestine (first study)
Medium: Gouache on paper
Year: 2005
Size: A4 (21x29.7 cm)
Owned by: For sale: 1900 NOK ($315.00). Unframed
The first of the two goaches on this theme, made as studies for the larger painting with the same title (see "Oil paintings" on the menu). I made this goauche after viewing a special on CNN about the terrible situation between the state of Israel and the Palestinians. The program made it clear that both sides suffer, and I wanted to show that somehow--how both sides desperately need peace to live normal lives. Here is Israel is a man and Palestine the woman. They kneel, humbled by their suffering and by fatigue; their heads meet, nearly intertwined in their struggle. But as man and woman can join in hopeful marriage, so can they join to wipe out the killings taking place on both sides.
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