The religious poison grows awfully strong and teaches us "laws" of some "deity" that of course happens to be made just according to the interests of each given power that be. (Church, government, whatever.) So, isn't that a coinsidence? To state that a "neutral power supreme" incidentally dictaes what *we* think is right. (It is always *we* and never our the others. ;-))
As for my part, I just leave all that thater behind me, and have my fun with the followers of "godly laws", no matter who they are. After some few thousands of years the archeologists woll really be stunning about the size of stupidity that was beating the hell out of the societies of our times. ;-)
that part with some old Greek, i like a lot- in fact, being stripped off any cloths fit for one at any given age, and all remnants left behind, with a firm look ahead is that aimed super-human (in fact that only makes sense in comparison with the modern man/ the jewish-christian masses and that it entails, values and morals and alike...)
Oops! And don't forget the shoe at the top right! A remnant, or a messanger of some other "more real" world? It just complements the rest of the image so well!
Absolutely original up to a stunning degree for its marriage of reality with a light that is familar, but then again so strange! The plasticity of the child is strong, the contorus are well defined, the details are well visible, and still it looks more like an incarnation of some small being out of this world than a real child. Almost what some old Greek must have thought about the being of some small deity, some demon. (Which at that time didn't have anything bad in its meaning at all.) The eyes seem to be the center of that look and attitude but also the "naive pose" contribute to that very well.
You seem to stay for some more time and study the realms between all thoughts about reality, ey? Nice thing to do!