Mark Sheeky

"Insomnia Due To Impending Sacrifice"

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The phrase The Hour of the Wolf refers to the hours in the middle of the night, where the logical mind is supressed and emotions are violent, large, unbearable. The painting depicts the extreme anxiety of one such time, when I was faced with an impossible choice. Lying on the bed felt somehow sacrificial and the electricity of anxiety like a lightning storm. I was transported, psychologically, to biblical times and the fate of Isaac, the son placed on an altar by God's command to be killed by Abraham as a test of faith. Death felt certain, as it often does at such times. A screaming figure is draped over a block, an altar with the Aramaic glyph M. Two other symbols hanging in the sky: two choices. Each desirable, each impossible. The spiked sheep, a contrast of fluffy and prickly, is a further symbol of the prickles of anxiety. This, like all of the image, came to me spontaneously in an instant flash, which is often the case with my paintings.

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