Artist : Marcelle Hanselaar
Title : The Knowing, Sisera’s Mother
Medium : etching / aquatint, ed 30
Dimensions : 38 x 43 cm, plate size 20 x 25 cm


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From the window, Sisera’s mother looked out, watching for his return, saying, ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why don’t we hear the sound of chariot wheels? Sisera’s nameless mother and an attendant wait in vain for her son to return home from war. His mother muses that the soldiers must be dividing the spoil, including “a womb or two for the head of each man”. Her crude reference to the human spoil she anticipates prompts a parallel with what Jael has done to her son.