Wide open spaces - "Rehoboth" or Isaac's fourth well - Painting

In contrast to Abraham, who conquers the unknown, Isaac is the one who inhabits the space created by the movement of the father (see also the relation of Telemachus to Odysseus). Isaac's role is now to re- create a legitimate space in the space inherited. The first obstacle he encounters is "jealousy", with his counterparts throwing dirt into his well, symbolically bringing down, downgrading his status and achievements. But Issac does not chose to enter into a conflictual relationship and keeps looking for water and digging wells.Still by the second well and third wells, he encounters strife and calls them "Esek" and"Sitnah" (accusation and contest) . But Isaac's movement is forward, to the good; he looks at what could be, and not what is. His faith finally pays off at the fourth well, remaining uncontested and thus named "rehoboth" -"room enough" or "wide open spaces"-. This is the name I chose for this painting, which I have kept working on since 2005, when I first tried to bring into paint my ideas and intuitions. But it was the work in Pont- Aven in 2009 that gave me the breakthrough about how to work with darkness vs. light, chaos vs. structure and integrating into my painting a new line of historicity: --- inheriting the classical tradition of art and modernity (see here the reference to Barnett Newman, Abstract expressionism - to the edge of the painting-, but also "light and space " (cf. Robert Irvin), to the core of the canvas- ). --- going beyond the classical historical space, in consecrating and elevating pre- classical ways of apprehending thought, in a more organic phenomenology of renewal (cf. "dying and rising") that was opened to me first through my own reflections coming back from Japan in 2004, and that was then validated through the reading of Martin Heidegger, K.G. Jung and Jordan Peterson. My knowledge of the Polynesian space and especially Tahiti, as well as my stay in Pont- Aven have also brought me close to the sensibilities and insights of Paul Gauguin whose painting "Vision après le Sermon" (1888) first opened my sight, and my way, to the richness of the archetypal narrative of the old testament.

Painting:Oil on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:25 W x 21 H x 0.8 D in

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