Open Minds
Megan (14)

My piece of artwork is meant to symbolise how, when we don't understand something, we don't like it. People have a tendency to get frustrated with, and dislike the things they can't figure out. The biggest thing we love but don't understand is art.

People look at art and try to work it out, that's half the fun of it, so if we can live with and love art, what can't we do the same to different religions? I'm not saying we should treat religion like a painting, I'm just saying we should be open minded and look at religion as people trying to express themselves.

Like artists express themselves through sculpture or drawing. We have to realise that we don't have to understand something to be able to like, admire it or even take an active role in it.

When we look at a piece of art that we don't understand it's exciting and mysterious, yet when we look at a religion we don't understand we discard it and not bother to work it out. We all have the power to change this. We can all be more open minded. We may just need to take a blind leap of faith, who knows where we may end up.