the Eucharistic Man
The retablo image of the Eucharistic Man is a weird thing in which a very bloody Jesus is being eaten by sheep. Of course, the indication is that the sheep represent the flock, or the Church, and that the body and blood of Christ are synonymous with the bread and wine of the Eucharist. Still, man-eating sheep look pretty weird. None of that has anything to do with my painting, actually, but I had been aware of the subject when I conceived of this.
It was actually Plato's "Timmaeus" that got me thinking about time and space, and therefore movement. I'm not suggesting that there's really any layer present in this painting that addresses these ideas, other than that the concept of movement itself is what caused me to conceive of the "bread and wine" man as something spilling off of a table. The platter from which they've spilt forms the halo of the cruciform figure, which is made from twelve pieces of bread, consistent with twelve disciples who ate, and a splash of wine. The podium has been upset by a lamb and the Bible that it indicates is opened to the passage in the Gospel of Mark that relates the Communion meal.