The Temple, the Jaguar & the Kung Fu Lesson
This is a post about three paintings: A view of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, a Jaguar E-type sports car,
This is a painting by me, in oils on canvas, measuring 1.40cm x 1.60cm). It’s a copy of a work called “Remember,” painted in 1924 by Russian artist, writer, traveller and spiritual guru Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947).
The original painting made a great impression on me when I came across it on the cover of a book by Reshad Feild (The Invisible Way, Element Books, 1979) about one man’s (Sufi) spiritual journey. For me, both the book and the painting struck poignant chords, expressing the loneliness of the spiritual search against the vastness of the world, and the pain of leaving all that is safe and familiar in order to go off on this very search. Later, I transferred this theme from its original setting in the Himalayas, to one that I had become familiar with myself: the Middle East!
Here is Roerich’s painting. Rather more powerful and more graphic in its drawn style than mine, perhaps.
And this is my more recent, Sinai-inspired interpretation of the same theme – also oil on canvas (60cm x 80cm)…..
This is a post about three paintings: A view of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, a Jaguar E-type sports car,
I want to try to explain, from my point of view, what it feels like to be living here in Israel in these critical and dangerous times. One of the friends I’ve made through my art, who lives in Oregon, wrote me this: “………How are you in Israel REALLY doing?”