'Lot'

25"H x 7"W x 9"D
Raku Fired Ceramic
1996


How strong the urge is in us to do what we are told not to do! I wanted to show Lot in his desire to turn back, but his conscious causes him to protect himself by lifting one arm to assure that he would obey. He is to me, one of the "most unlucky lucky men" to survive the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah as from his seeds came some of the wickedness we see today. It would have been better if he had turned and had become a pillar of salt like his wife.