So since I am not religious, I find it somewhat baffling that saints and icons are so fascinating to me. I once digitally altered a saint card, and presented it to my belly dance teacher. I was a little apprehensive; she is Catholic. Not only did she love it, but she showed it to her ma, who also loved it. No higher complement.
The only part of the original card I kept is the gold border and halo medallion thing. The background photo is one I took in Istanbul, played with in Photoshop. |
"Trinity" by Jska Priebe, "Super Marie" by French artist Soasig Chamaillard |
"Faith should be strong enough to remain unshaken by simple objects. I think they need to step back from the object and not forget that it's an artistic work."It makes me want to find a bunch of cheap plaster Mary statuettes and go nuts... but I already have a project in mind for Wonder Woman. I just need to lay my hands on a bunch of old comics that I don't object to destroying.
*Either all of them are capitalized, or none of them are.
4 comments:
Good to know I'm not the only one who pictures religious things doing other things. I only tell my girlfriend and my blog, because everyone else thinks I'm crazy or gets offended.
I also enjoy yelling "JESUS CHRIST" when people have a jesus on their lawn/roof at xmas.
Crazy is clearly in the eye of the beholder. ;) I managed to offend someone by referring to Easter as "Zombie Jesus Day" What? - I was asked. He died, he reanimated, ergo he's a zombie.
They were very much Not Amused.
I did that too, apparently making up jokes about christian religious things will get you unfriended. And mentioning that pagan holidays are the basis for christian ones
Ugh. some people have no sense of humor. And I'm sorry, but when the Atheists can quote the bible better than they can, they don't get to be indignant about the history they don't know. (Not me, I tried reading the children's version when I was 9. I never even made it out of Genesis; I was so freaked out by Lot's daughters... Have the book banning people read that thing??)
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