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| The Women at the Well |
Last week I was having trouble understanding somethings about Unemployment Insurance so I went to my friend, Norm's house so he could help me sort through all the paperwork. Besides getting a wonderful cup of tea (and, thanks, Norm, for the tea bags you gave me to take home), I also came across this wonderful Sculpture sitting on their kitchen table. It was made by Norm's wife, Deana when she was in high school.
I love it! The fact that it has no clear facial features or even distinct digits on her hands and yet is obviously a women bending down as if at a well, gives this art work, an ethereal other worldly quality while still remaining fixed in this world. Almost, like a religious Icon.
Good work, Deana - you should do more!
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| Scripture Reference Plague on the Sculpture
This piece of Art was inspired by an incident described in the Gospel of John where Jesus is tired and asks an outcast Samaritan women for a drink of water. She is surprised that a Jew is talking to her and then Jesus offers living water to this women. Early Christian tradition says that the women's name was Photine and, after the death of Peter and Paul, she went on to Carthage to proclaim the Gospel. Giving out living water, if you will. She was killed in the persecutions of Nero, the famous fiddler on the Roman Roof!
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