On my last post, you can view some photos of the show. I'll upload some videos in the next few days. It amazes me that in all the craziness of finishing things and building the structure and preparing the gallery, that its finished and how God has been using it. In the next few days I'll write some posts sharing stories of the conversations that we've had with people explaining the pieces and how God has enabled us to share the Gospel and to challenge people to think more deeply about their spiritual lives and life in general. it has truly been amazing.
Pray for tonight. It is the last night of the exhibition and I'll be working a shift which means I'll be interacting with the people who attend, sharing the vision behind the pieces with them and getting to know them where they're at.
The show is called 2x2 and the artist statement behind the exhibit explains it all.
2x2
We can't do this.
We shove things into memories or poems or paintings but our real purpose can't be shoved into anything. It's too big. We asked the question, "What image best represents God?"
The answer isn't fitting on a 2x2 panel.
But we liked the name 2x2 and we kept it. It represents our process-in attempting to answer the question, we didn't do it alone. We teamed up with each other, with the community, maybe with you. This is not the art of isolation, this is the art of a group of creators from across the country.
We're trying to do something here.
We're trying to make art because we were created to create, because we were created to know and magnify beauty. We're trying to answer an unanswerable question and that's what you'll find in this gallery-our attempts, our successes, our failures. You'll find the best ideas we came up with to answer that question.
But where do ideas come from anyway?
That's our point exactly. And because these ideas don't really belong to us they're not ideas that are meant to be thought about alone. Talk about them with someone-a friend, a lover, maybe a stranger in the gallery. Make sure the ideas you came with aren't the ideas you leave with, and maybe they won't be yours.
Pray for tonight. It is the last night of the exhibition and I'll be working a shift which means I'll be interacting with the people who attend, sharing the vision behind the pieces with them and getting to know them where they're at.
The show is called 2x2 and the artist statement behind the exhibit explains it all.
2x2
We can't do this.
We shove things into memories or poems or paintings but our real purpose can't be shoved into anything. It's too big. We asked the question, "What image best represents God?"
The answer isn't fitting on a 2x2 panel.
But we liked the name 2x2 and we kept it. It represents our process-in attempting to answer the question, we didn't do it alone. We teamed up with each other, with the community, maybe with you. This is not the art of isolation, this is the art of a group of creators from across the country.
We're trying to do something here.
We're trying to make art because we were created to create, because we were created to know and magnify beauty. We're trying to answer an unanswerable question and that's what you'll find in this gallery-our attempts, our successes, our failures. You'll find the best ideas we came up with to answer that question.
But where do ideas come from anyway?
That's our point exactly. And because these ideas don't really belong to us they're not ideas that are meant to be thought about alone. Talk about them with someone-a friend, a lover, maybe a stranger in the gallery. Make sure the ideas you came with aren't the ideas you leave with, and maybe they won't be yours.
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