seeds & roots
art: digital collage
Have you ever found something that you were sure was gone? You see I thought this piece of art was dead in it’s original form. I made it back when Photoshop 6 was cutting edge (today we are using Photoshop CS4, the 11th incarnation)! The only surviving example of the art above was in my print portfolio which I hardly ever open. For some reason I opened it today, and out of a tucked away pocket fell a CDR. I stuck the CDR into my laptop to find the original .PSD and font files for this artwork made 7 years ago!
idol |ˈīdl|
noun
an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship.
• a person or thing that is greatly admired, loved, or revered
Anybody who really knows me has seen this before. It’s something I made in late 2002. It was part of an independent study in Graphic Design I took during my senior year of college. The study involved me coming up with a series of 6 works. I was fascinated by the act of idolatry. I was seeing idolatry everywhere and in everyone’s life: the religious, the irreligious, my friends, my family, myself, etc.. We all were guilty of elevating everyday objects and experiences to the place of most importance in our lives. I was seeing people all around me sacrificing time & money for these ordinary things they had lifted up to supreme status in their lives. Worse yet I was just as guilty of it. Everywhere I looked, no one was immune to the act of idolatry. It was around this time that I realized the simple truth “We all worship something.”
For some people its sex (like in the work above, our culture is rampant with sexual idolatry)
for others its power,
for some its control,
then there are some people who worship being moral,
then there are others who worship being immoral.
Some parents worship there kids,
some young people worship the person their dating,
some people worship their career,
some people worship their stuff.
for me I’m forever seeing that I am guilty of all these…
what is it for you?