"For me, sculpture is the shattering of an
image... the act of Abraham," wrote
Lachman. The Israeli critic Gideon Ofrat
commented that in thus defining his art,
Lachman "represented himself as
Abraham smashing his father's idols — embodying the commandment, 'Thou
shalt make no graven image,' he affirmed
the monotheistic-Jewish divinity and the
paradox of sculpture simultaneously."
Ransom of the Father, Lachman 1999