James Cordova Arts

Retablo, 2004

Hand-adzed wood, home-made gesso, water-based natural pigments, piñon-resin varnish, leather.

Noah in His Ark (Gn 6: 9 - 22 and 7: 1- 24)

Because God was unpleased with the wickedness of humankind, he decided to flood the land and destroy all living creatures. But he spared Noah—who as the only righteous man on Earth—and his family by revealing his plan and instructing him to build a boat. Noah collected male and female pairs of every living animal and bird and put them on his boat. Noah was 600 years old when God flooded the land. All living creature but Noah, his family, and the animals he collected were spared, perished.