Peggy Reavey Portfolios

In Genesis 19 1-11 Lot is distressed when the townsmen demand he send his houseguests outside to be raped. Without hesitation he offers instead his daughters who, he assures the men, are virgins. We are asked by some interpreters to understand the primal importance of hospitality to Lot's culture, the imperative to welcome strangers. How about the dismissive shrug with which his female children are destroyed? This patriarchal and poisonous view is woven throughout the Bible, a text millions defer to and use to justify ---even exalt---their loathsome behavior.
This painting may startle or shock, but I want people to see in front of their eyes what goes on in this book. I have tried to make the painting beautiful in hopes of seducing the reluctant viewer.
And Lot said,"Take my daughters---please." Oil on wood. 36"X 48

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The title is a line from Shakespeare's KING LEAR; "Sharper than a serpent's tooth, a thankless child." I painted this when there was a storm of inter-generational wounding dividing me and my loved ones. In my time I have been the sharp tooth and felt the sharp tooth; I think it's just part of family life. Don't give up! Stay in the boat! Love each other!
"Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth." Oil and Oil crayon on Wood; 36" x 48

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God uses his power to cause envy and bitterness, to manipulate his devotees into fighting---in this case fratricide. Don't kill your brother!! Find a God who loves you and loves what you have to give.
"Find a God who eats her vegetables."

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Eve offers an apple to the first of all creatures to emerging from the briny deep. On the rocks behind her, Charles Darwin has scrawled his thoughts about evolution in an ever branching line. At the top, Mr. Darwin has written the words: I THINK.
"Eve tempts the serpent." Oil and oil crayon on wood.

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Sarai, 99-year-old wife of Abraham is told by God that she will bear a son. Thinking this absurd, Sarai laughs .
God hears her, and is offended. "Do you laugh at God?'
Terrified, Sarai denies it. "No! I didn't laugh!"
"Yes, you did! " God rages. "I heard you!"
God is a bully and a thug (Very awful and very human characteristics).

"Sarai gets caught mocking God." Oil and oil crayon on wood. 24"X 24".

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. Each self-absorbed resident in the houses to the left is engaging in one of the seven deadly sins, (Gluttony, Wrath, Envy, Vanity, Lust, Greed, Sloth). They all tuck themselves away in their houses and are blind to the world around them. They don't see what is happening outside; they don't see that the Whaledogs are coming back.
"When the whaledogs come back." 28" x 70" oil on wood panel.

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The first fratricide.
"hi, Cain, Honey! Where's your brother at?"

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The steep, sedentary rock shelf marked by fossils of millions of tiny organisms is also marked by a stretch of blank shale showing the Permian Extinction, the first mass extinction. I wanted to place Adam and Eve on that shelf and see if it raised any questions in their minds.
Adam and Eve climb the Permian shelf: oil and oil crayon on wood panel

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