About the Work: Walter Goldfarb’s work reflects on religion, history and
art history from a contemporary point of view. Utilizing
biographical elements such as his parents' history,
Goldfarb explores the values and visual vocabulary of
Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The washed-out color
of his canvases represents grieving, and thus Goldfarb's
paintings imply a remembrance of past events. In this
painting, Goldfarb is representing the loss of power of
men. The image of the castle in the painting represents
male power in contrast to the black spiral form in the
foreground that is to represent female power. This black
spiral form is also a reference to the Greek mythological
figure of Medusa, whose distinct hair was filled with
serpents and whose power was able to make anyone
who looked at her turn into stone.