Sculpture Information

The term watcher is used in the Jewish religion and is also found in the Bible. They are an order of beings who together form a heavenly or Divine Council who make decisions under God’s direction and pass down the decision made to the lower heavenly ranks (Daniel 4). Some of the council turned against God and came to earth to breed with women and their children were called the Nephilim (Genesis 6). They were half spirit and half human and were described as Giants. Because of this breaking in the order of creation the fallen council watchers were assigned to be locked away in Tartarus a place under the earth. These fallen watchers lead humanity astray beginning with the Edenic fall.

The rebellion, according to 1 Enoch, came after an archangel called the Divine Council to serve a new order of creation, humanity, who were to be adopted in God’s family and would therefore supersede the Divine Council.

The sculpture shows three watchers. I believe they are those who had not rebelled against God. They are climbing a dark hill, holding their heads down in grief and their garments are blood red. I believe the hill is the edicts of judgement that are yet to be made against the earth and they are blood red because of the cost of life that these edicts will cause.