Oilgraph on wooden panel // 33” x 42”

“Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Come, my lord, come right in. Don’t be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

“I’m thirsty,” he said. “Please give me some water.” She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him up. “Stand in the doorway of the tent,” he told her. “If someone comes by and asks you, ‘Is anyone in there?’ say ‘No.’”

But Jael, Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.” - Judges 4

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The actors could only shoot on two separate nights. So on night one, I shot Derek as Sisera as my friend Tara stood in for Jael. Simone, who had played Jael five years before came back to finish the job. The images were them composited together on the panel.