Oil painting
Ptah – The Initiator
Original title: Ptah – Initiateur
A pale god stands waist-deep in water, spinning a roulette wheel whose pockets are religions.
False beard, broad collar of red beads: this is Ptah, craftsman god of Memphis, who made the world by speaking it. His long staff touches the wheel, where the numbers have been replaced by the cross, the crescent, the star, the om, the yin and yang. A waterfall thunders behind him. Creation as a spin of the wheel, with the faiths as the stakes.
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- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 100 × 80 cm
- Year
- 2016
- Collection
- Oil painting
- Status
- Unique piece
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ViewingThe work can be seen at the Fontainebleau studio, by appointment.
About the series
Each canvas in this cycle starts from a title — an expression, a brand, a slogan — and treats it as a subject for classical painting. The result is a chronicle of contemporary public life, in which power, money and belief appear as characters.
