The Woman at the Well

Description

Title: The Woman at the Well
Size: Approximately 12–14 inches tall
Medium: Acrylic on porcelain
Artist: ArNoUx
Year: 2025
Style: Contemporary Figurative Sculpture, Biblical Intervention

Curatorial Description:
The Woman at the Well reimagines the pivotal encounter from John 4:7-26, where Jesus offers living water to a Samaritan woman, breaking social and spiritual boundaries. This porcelain sculpture, hand-painted in sweeping layers of acrylics, transforms a traditional female form into a vessel of revelation and grace.

Her downward gaze and earthen jar echo centuries of routine, yet the vibrant colors suggest awakening—an invitation to transformation. The marbled patterns flow like water, symbolic of both the physical and spiritual thirst that Jesus addresses in their exchange. ArNoUx revives her story not as background, but as testimony: a witness of divine encounter, a bearer of truth to her people.

> “Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.”
— John 4:14