When
the artist showed me her sculptor, she told me she
had called it -- “Lament”. It represented
intense grief to her. When I saw it, I only remember
seeing a
prostrate form with hands covering her face in grief.
I can’t explain this, but what I saw was different from what she presented
to me to use on this site. I immediately thought of the verse from Jer. 31:15
about “Rachel weeping for her children ...” It is quoted again in
Matthew in respect to Herod’s killing of all Jewish boys two years of
age and younger.
But I saw beyond that. I saw “Rachel” weeping 6 million tears
for her children and would not be comforted because they are not.
What I felt was from Jeremiah to the Holocaust -- the wailing lamentation
of intense grief. Only tolerance, acceptance, human kindness, and love for
one
another can soothe the tears of “Rachel”. -- Wellington E. Watts,
II
A special thanks to the artist for allowing me to use her sculptor to make
this site possible. A special thanks also to my sister for her many talents
in developing
this concept in this format. |
