"Christ Blessing"

Christ's left hand, horizontal, balances the glass orb as though he might be holding a palette; the other raises two fingers in blessing as though they are a "paintbrush" about to begin the picture. Pointing and painting in art are closely linked.  The glass orb, meanwhile, also suggests an eyeball with a window-frame reflection. The suggestion is, as in portraits with a similar reflection on the eye by Dürer, that the scene is indoors and during daylight hours even as the background suggests the opposite, that Christ is outdoors at night.  With Christ as the divine painter facing the viewer, the canvasmust then be a mirror, an archetypal symbol for the mind.