5/3/2018 0 Comments Finished Truth To Power PieceThis week we finished up our Truth to Power pieces. This process was interesting for me because I had originally started one idea for this project, but after working on it for a day or so, I simply wasn't feeling inspired. I didn't feel connected to the piece and I had some other ideas about how I wanted to express the truth of my identity. After researching artist Patrick Bremer, I felt inspired by his work an wanted to try his style of collage, something I have not worked with very much. This entire piece is slightly outside f what I would normally do, and I experimented with a variety of techniques and ideas in this piece.
I began by painting the face, the silhouette, and the background with acrylic paint. Then I used images and text from magazines and other sources to create a collage over the skin. My meaning behind this piece is simple. As I thought about the idea of truth and power, I struggled with the idea that each person has his or her own definition of truth. Looking at it this way, that means truth can be defined about 7.3 billion different ways. In that case, is there any such thing as truth in the first place? This goes back to the idea that the experiences of each individual person ultimately shapes their worldview. So I decided to create my piece based on what I have seen to be true in my own life. All that I could think about when I was asked to express truth is the power of God and the impact my faith has had on my life. The power of God, who created the earth and has all things within His control, is the most incredible truth I have experienced. Instead of grasping around for some fleeting way to add meaning and substance to my life, my “identity in Christ is the foundation of my soul”, and in Him I find truth because I know that His sacrifice, the shedding His blood, and his victory over death is the reason I can live free. I wanted to show this through my piece, so I added some symbolism. The red color of the silhouette represents the blood of Jesus, intertwined and essentially making up my existence. The pieces of images and text represent my experiences and what makes up my identity. And the shifted brushstrokes in the bottom represent my openness to the ideas and opinions of others, as well as my own output of thoughts and my witness of the truth and power of Jesus in my life.
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