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High school art project. Too lazy to write an explanation so here's an extract from my research workbook:

This project is primarily focused on the intrinsically monotheistic dilemma of God’s existence. If God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent, how can he be good when there is so much suffering the world?

Here an angel is seen being constrained by a hand.

“God made the angels to show him splendor, as he made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But man he made to serve him wittily in the tangle of his mind.”

Sir Thomas More, in Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons.

One way to interpret this sculpture is that the hand belongs to that of mankind. Due to our inquisitive nature and a desire to thrive, we feed upon our need for faith and in doing so, destroys the hierarchy that God has created. The hand of mankind is confining the angel in defiance.

A keen mind may notice that the hand in the sculpture is a left hand. In religious painting such as Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, God is using his right hand and Adam his left. In many cultures the left hand is considered to be evil and dirty. Thus the hand may belong to Lucifer, the fallen angel associated with Satan, who is pulling other angels down in bitter contempt, for God has create him as he is, since if God is omnipotent and omniscient, there is no free will.

This sculpture was inspired by both the French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s Le Cathedrale and the Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova’s Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss.

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Wow, that's a really powerful take on a slippery idea.
Gorgeous work too! :nod: It feel constrained when all you want to see it do is fly.

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November 10, 2007
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