作品內容
原名：The Hands Resist Him
譯名：抵抗之手
作者： Bill Stoneham （比爾·斯托納姆）
畫作時間：1972年
比爾·斯托納姆出生於1947年，在美國麻薩諸塞州波士頓。
斯托納姆是一位多才多藝的藝術家，涉及的工作包括電影，電子遊戲藝術。美術包括油畫，詩歌，評論和寫作。多年來，他的網站，他的作品都有一幅畫——“手中抵擋他”，這幅“鬧鬼畫”為他取得許多惡名。
畫中的小男孩是畫家兒時的寫照。這幅畫在2000年在eBay上拍賣時，店主為了提高頁面點擊率而編造出了這幅畫鬧鬼的故事，導致畫價從199美元狂飆到1025美元。畫家為了回應這個奇怪的騙局還很搞笑地又畫了兩張畫中的小男孩（也就是他自己）長大後的版本。
斯托納姆和他的妻子住在加利福尼亞州奧克蘭市，繪製超現實主義的油畫，以及創建數字插圖的刊物。
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創作背景
Where to begin? Well I've always had a connection to what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious. I think we all do. Artists - especially visual artists - are barometers for the currents that run through this collective. Dreams are a common experience people may have with this. Anyway, my own experience is a sensitivity to place – physical, geographical place. There are memories, echoes of all the life within a place. Maybe it's what's called channeling. When I painted theHands Resist Himin 1972, I used an old photo of myself at age five in a Chicago apartment. The hands are the 'other lives.' The glass door, that thin veil between waking and dreaming. The girl/doll is the imagined companion, or guide through this realm.
Both the owner of the Gallery where 'Hands' was displayed and the Los Angeles Times art critic who reviewed my show were dead within a year of the show. I'm sure it was coincidence, but some of what I paint resonates in other people, opening the inner door. Or basement. By the way, I still have no idea what happened to the character actor who bought the painting at the show(editor note: it was John Marley, who died in 1984), or how it ended up abandoned in a building, though I could speculate. - Bill
