Obviously this painting depicts a questionable reality concept within the painters mind...
The Hands Resist Him?
When we think of resist, we think of something trying to hold something off.
Resist : def. To strive to fend off or offset the actions, effects, or force of.
Could this boy(maybe the artist as a child, he later finished the painting) and girl be a lost soul, trapped in the painting and resisting the tempation of the hands(devil)?
The current owner recieved emails concerning this paranormal activity...
An exorcist type of voice, along with a blast of hot air, like standing in front of an oven door. (the gate to hell?) Two friends crying after this experience and praying until a minute had passed and everything went back to normal.
A new Epson printer that ate and mutilated page after page when the user tried to download images of this oil. (maybe the painted was started by his parents, and he finished it using a particular oil)
The Native American who became so ill he had to cleanse his house by burning white sage. He warned me not to put this item around small children, and that there is great evil contained here.
Obviously something evil resides in the picture (imagine Ghostbusters 2)