SPIRITED ARTS
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Open Minds

Joshua (13)

Open Minds
Joshua (13)
Coventry

At first glance you might think this picture is about light and dark or good and evil, or heaven and hell. It's not. The people in the middle all relate to teach other with a different perspective. Every one of them has a light and dark side, and you see them all differently depending on where you are looking from! However much you dislike someone, they have a light side too. Many of us forget this and sometimes we cannot forgive people for their darkness.

I've drawn all the people with one eye, as they have only one perspective. The same is true of my picture of Satan. Only God sees completely, and that's why the colour comes all from him, in what would otherwise be a very grey and colourless world. Even those closest to evil have colour and light reaching out to them: it reaches each person differently, which shows diversity, but deep down we all have the same needs. We are all the same 'shape'.

Remember: God really gave us two eyes to see everything. We should not live with one eye closed. Living spiritually means allowing the light and colour to be seen in us, and to look for the same in other people.
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