The Sleep©

He who finds a wife, findeth a good thing and obtains favour from the Lord

Let us for a minute pretend I am Edvard Munch. You know who he his right? Well if you don't I will spare you some gist about this legend. He's dead now but Edward created the iconic work (image above) popularly called 'The Scream' comprising four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, between 1893 and 1910. Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature) is the title Munch gave to these works, all of which show a figure with an agonized expression against a landscape with a tumultuous orange sky. Arthur Lubow has described The Scream as "an icon of modern art, a Mona Lisa for our time. The Scream has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the version in the National Gallery was stolen. It was recovered several months later. In 2004, both The Scream and Madonna were stolen from the Munch Museum, and recovered two years later. This work was recently auctioned for a disclosed sum of $119.9 million.

Like I said, imagine I am him (I know its a long shot) but you can't really blame me. I'd rather be called an illiterate than being referred to as unimaginative. I seriously think that lack of imagination is the worst state ever. It was Albert Einstein that said that "Imagination is more powerful than knowledge". I totally agree with him. If I was Edward Munch, I will create a new work and I will title it 'The Sleep'. Who knows just maybe it may become another classic work of art. The inspiration for it will be a legend culled from the Biblical account of creation. I bet this will confer some mythical status to the work and an aura of divinity around it.

I can't draw nor paint to save my life but if I could, the work would not be agonizing like Edvard's Scream. I will depict a man (his name is Adam) in a deep sleep. He is asleep because God put him to sleep for his (Adam's) own good. The work will evoke loneliness. It won't be a still life work but a multidimensional work with the full accompliments of drama and more. Maybe I can even add "this is the bone of my bone and the flesh of my flesh in whom I am well pleased in...

It would be my joy for this work to achieve one thing which is that young men in search of who to marry should allow God to put them to "sleep" like He did to the first man (Adam). I reckon that the search for the right person to marry can be a frustrating one. It just doesn't cut it to venture into this illustrious search without God's guidance and direction. Frustration is the result of an unaided search. God will never pay for what He hasn't ordered for.

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