This is one of the three paintings I had in the Biblical Proportions Show this weekend.
“Genesis 40, Joseph Interprets the Dream of the Baker”
Oil on Canvas
32×40 inches
When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets of bread.
In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
“This is what it means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days. Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat away your flesh.”
Yes. Excellent choice. And it makes perfect sense, too. Joseph, a Catholic, had been through some pretty traumatic times, starting as early as pre-school, actually.
Sadly, it appears that you’ve used one of the more contemporary versions (King James, perhaps?) and suffered an incomplete / not exactly correct tranlation error. (Not your fault, of course.) The actual, original Sanskrit that was chiseled into a stone tablet with toothpicks (an example of which I happen to have right here at the dining room table) reads as follows:
Piece by Piece–
We Can’t be Born Special
by my power
present international!
Produce Selection Since 1976
Hit It!
No, wait– that’s from Will Ferguson’s “Hokkaido Highway Blues” (page 297). I highly recommend it.
BTW, your painting kicks ass.
T