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"Altar"    acrylic painting by collaborative artists Ira and Corliss Lesser    1999    72in x 76in    183cm x 193cm

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"Altar"

In Genesis, God demands that Abraham sacrifice what he loves most, his son.  How many are forced to make hard decisions or turn over their lives on a principle of faith? 

     In this picture we have used a gender reversal, Isaac is a female principle, the eye is God, super-ego, or the conscience.  In my life I have always talked to "myself", I have always felt watched from without, is this a universal human trait?   If a tree falls in the forest and it is not heard, has it happened?  Do we exist with out this internal running dialogue?

              Ira Lesser

 

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