abstract:The Shadow of Death is a religious painting by William Holman Hunt, on which he worked from 1870 to 1873, during his second trip to the Holy Land. It depicts Jesus as a young man prior to his ministry, working as a carpenter.
Nature has a more restorative presence in "The Wind Will Carry Us" ("Bad ma ra khahad bord, " 1999), also about the beauty of life in theshadowofdeath.
What are the objects so essential to our national existence and well-being that we are prepared, as a nation and as individuals, to go through the valley oftheshadowofdeath to reach them?