Philip Harper

ARTIST STATEMENT:

This print is inspired by the Biblical story of Jacob, who cheats his brother of his inheritance and flees. The start and end of his time away from home is marked by mysterious experiences both of which occur at ‘the Blue Hour’.

At the end of his journey and just before his reconciliation with his brother, Jacob wrestles a mysterious stranger, often proposed to be God himself, from dusk until daybreak. For Jacob, the liminal time of ‘the Blue Hour’ is a transformational metamorphosis as he also wrestles with himself and his actions of betrayal.

Image opposite : The Wrestlers