Son of Man

Nicely done painting - but why is he blonde and fair skinned? Surely he should be dark, swarthy, Eastern Mediterranean and Jewish looking. And why no underarm hair? What is the thinking behind this?

Jesus was an Essene. The Essenes ..... belonged to a white or light-skinned race with fair hair, ... Nobody knows just who these blue-eyed, fair-skinned people were, or even where they came from. there is under arm hair put in as shadow. The most important point of this work for me as the artist is the face, the expression, it embodies the suffering we experience as human beings as we travel through this temporality. ...