the patriarch
and his daughters
never did agree
on commandments
written in stone
meant to rule over
soft flesh
Combines trees by Van Gogh, Moses by Gustave Doré, and three bathers by Auguste Renoir.
The story
The title plays on a gap in the Bible. Moses had two sons, Gershom and Eliezer; no daughter of his is named. The women of his story are other men's daughters: Pharaoh's daughter, who came down to wash at the river and found the infant Moses, and the seven daughters of the priest of Midian, whom Moses defended at a well, one of whom, Zipporah, became his wife.
The collage combines Moses from Gustave Doré's illustrations for the Bible (1866), trees by Van Gogh and three bathers by Auguste Renoir.