THE STRUGGLE OF JACOB the-struggle-of-jacob | Page 31

I have resumed this solution in order to represent the juxtaposition . Curvature was well suited for modelling their interaction . To vary the semicircles used previously I decided to prolong an extremity in a rectilinear way . Only afterwards , when I completed the design of the work , did I realize that the forms were two Js , just like the initials of JACOB and JAHWEH ( in some transliterations )! The principle of synchronicity in creative processes often reveals itself in a surprising way . Nothing happens by chance .
So , with the backgrounds done , photographed and rescaled on the computer , the compositional phase begins . First , I elaborate the geometric objects with a program for designing in 3D that allows me to spin them around and see them from different points of view . Then I imagine their interaction , in this case taking place between two objects : in the first painting I must represent an aggression , a physical clash , in the second a verbal confrontation , and in the third a resolution . It is in this way that these figures are born . In the first the two bodies are clasped in tension , in the second they reflect each other , and in the third they harmonize . In order to express the overcoming of this contrast , I thought of the shape of the cross , adapting myself in some way to the Christological interpretation of the Old Testament .