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Then they decided to build it, throwing the equivalent of $10 million (in funds and hardware) into the project, and emerging with a blueprint for a machine with an Intel chip, 32 MB of ram and 16 MB of flash memory. Running the free Linux operating system, it features a picture-based touch -sensitive screen, multilingual text-to-speech capabilities and a writing pro-gram that differs enough from the Xerox-patented version used on Palm Pilots to skirt costly licensing fees. It allows e-mail and Net access, provided there is a working telephone line. All this, with smart...
...artist’s desire for answers becomes even more apparent in “Together.” While at first glance, the painting appears to depict a family portrait, a closer look reveals the characters of Abraham, Isaac and a ram. Not only is the ram bound, however, but Isaac is also bound as a sacrifice...
...Abraham and Isaac traces back to the early 1970s, when Weil’s only son was killed by a tractor. Shaped by major events of war and loss, many of his images display a need for answers despite his asserted atheism. The painting titled “The Ram in the Thicket” shows a ram walking heedlessly into a thicket that will ultimately lead to its destruction. The bright colors present a false facade of serenity. Happy-faced yellows and sea green create a lovely effect while obscuring the underlying tensions within the subject matter...
...Similar contrasts can be found in Weil’s other paintings. “Memories of a Sacrifice” shows the skull of a ram over bound branches. The bright oranges and reds again obscure the underlying anxiety of the painting. Although the ram is given for sacrifice, the viewer is aware of Weil’s bitter confrontation—Can we really escape the ram’s fate in the face of God’s demands...
...viewer is jolted from an uplifting message of family to the realization of impeding death and annihilation of Isaac and the ram. God does not demand one, but two sacrifices. The relationship between Genesis 22 and Weil’s personal loss and grief comes across powerfully, and the viewer begins to sense how our own fates may not be free from God’s demands...