About the creation
The Binding of Isaac
Artist name: Terna Fred
The interplay of hands, spread open in protest and clenched in a restraining gesture, move from top to bottom along the axis mundi of the knife. The angel’s feathers and the ram’s horns echo the spread hands. Both the angel and Abraham look to heaven for salvation, while Isaac looks both toward the viewer and toward heaven. The entire composition is circular, constituting a universe of its own.
Source: Genesis 22
Technique: Ink drawing
Date: 1978
