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.