• O. Yemi Tubi
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sHe bites the Apple

“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” Genesis 3:6 According to the Holy Bible, the first couple were living innocently and in perpetual bliss before they ate the forbidden fruit (apple). Prior to this incident, everything was good and the couple had good fellowship with their creator. This act of disobedience severed relationship between the first couple and God, their maker. Things went downhill for the first couple and their descendants, the human race, from that time. Sin came into the human race, it causes them to hide from hearing the voice of God. This painting illustrates the fall and the redemption of the human race. This title – “sHe bites the Apple” is meant to be provocative. It is to provoke question like “Why blame Eve and not Adam?” The way I wrote “sHe” is to show the two pronouns as one instead of writing He/she bite the apple. In my usual unique style, I made up Adam and Eve figures with roses and stems of thorns. I painted Adam’s figure in Auguste Rodin’s the “thinker” pose with partly eating apple in his hand depicting his remorse after biting the apple. I added a touch of humour by painting a squirrel and a cat with their jaw-dropping expressions to show their surprise to human’s disobedience to their creator by biting the forbidden apple. The blood of Christ flowing from the cross towards the figure of Adam illustrates Christians’ belief that the blood of Christ washed away the sin of Adam to reconcile God and the human race.

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Elton Houck 17 Apr 2020

This is of course Biblical truth and not a fable....This is the story of sin entering the world as Eve was coasted to defy the edit of God and partake of the forbidden fruit. When Gd confronted the two...Eve laid the blame for her sin to the lies of the serpent....then Adam replied that the Woman led him to eat of the forbidden fruit; but Adam did not stop there with Eve as the culprit--but Adam had the audacity to blame God for having given Adam the woman. This even was more than a mere yarn of antiquity--it was the entrance of sin into the world--and the first shedding of blood. God slew a creature and used its skins to cover the two. God proclaimed that sin required a blood covering, and this was pointing to man's way of forgiveness through the blood...pointing to Christ who ultimately would shed his sinless blood to cover the sins of all mankind, to all that would profess Jesus as Lord and Savior.

Artist Reply: Yes. Jesus is our Lord and Saviour. Thank for contribution.

X-Chel 17 Apr 2020

Wonderfully surreal way of portraying the Biblical myth (which has different interpretations and implications in the different Abrahamic religious traditions)! Love the abundance of the colors and the symbolism!

Artist Reply: X-Chel thank you very much for your comment

Nancy Price 15 Jan 2020

Wow and wow

Artist Reply: Nancy Price, thank you