This picture has a very interesting design. At the top, there is the arm of God reaching out to touch the figure of Adam from Michelangelo's fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The bottom is filled with numerous elements and there is little in between. But the church steeple pointing towards the spark of creation of Adam draws the eye down to the classical statue whose gaze then focuses our eyes back to the bottom left. There, outlined figures show a great range of our human behavior--good and bad, creative and destructive, the contradictions of our human nature.

A number of my paintings have references from the art world in them; this work actually has two references: the hands from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel fresco of "The Creation of Adam" and the Greek statue at the bottom right. Although I'm using these art quotes very little nowadays, I still feel that when I did, the art references had immediate impact and carried a message that many people recognized. Certainly, there is no more well-known representation of the beginning of human life, as the Bible tells it anyway, than that of the image of God reaching out to bring life to Adam.

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