Art, is to me an expression of the interior self that
It can be tactile toward any of the five senses that it engages
would be way I would express it. For me it's motion and
paint and the use of my hands. (It's) kind of a free-flowing
outpour onto the canvas. Its natural inspiration
these moments you know that just hit you like
rain hit your face seems very right and
sometimes...often I'll just paint it and let it go where it wants to go
every artist follows some creative process
and while that process may obviously vary from person to person
In fact, even from one piece of artwork to another there's one thing that every
creative process has in common
before a masterpiece ever comes into being
first it exists in somebody's mind
before a paint brush strokes a canvas, before a chisel touches the stone
before a piece of clay is placed on the potter's wheel
before the artist has a painting or a sculpture or a piece of pottery
before the artist has anything tangible first and foremost
the artist has a dream...an intention...an inspiration
In the artist's mind he sees what he's going to create
even before he creates it. It's almost as though
it existed before it existed.
Where does this ability to dream and
to create come from? If we really are the result of a random
unguided evolutionary process, then things like
art, and music, and mathematics, and even science itself
would seem gratuitous to say the least but
if we are created in the image of God like the Bible says
then that really explains a lot...not only the ability but the insatiable desire to
create
Why? Because God Himself is a creator. In fact, the very first thing the Bible
tells us about God
is that he's creative. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
Now, I don't know what you see when you look at yourself in the mirror? Maybe you see
someone who's too young or too old
Maybe you see someone who's under-educated or inexperienced
maybe see someone who belongs to the wrong social class, race or gender
you see all your failures and shortcomings and you think to yourself
God could never use me...but what about God, your Creator
what does he see when he looks at you? Let me explain it this way
Early in the 1500's
a 17 foot long block of granite
sat in a junk yard where it had been abandoned for several decades
Other artists had examined the rock and all determined that it was unfit for use
it was cracked. It was damaged. It was broken.
and no one ever thought that anything beautiful
could be made from this rejected rock. And then one day
along came a 25-year-old artist and sculptor
and when he saw that rock he didn't see blemishes and imperfections
he said he could see an angel in the rock
and he wanted to set it free
To him, even the broken places
and the cracked places fit in perfectly with the
vision that he had for that stone.
He took that colossal piece of cold
granite back to his workshop
and he began to labor over it, tirelessly with a hammer and chisel
he worked night and day with obsessive dedication
the people in the village where he lived thought that he had lost his mind
because from time to time he would scream at the Rock saying
Come out! Come out!
after nearly three years that young artist by the name
Michelangelo, finally revealed his enduring masterpiece
a sculpture that is so iconic it is probably the best-known sculpture in
existence
known the world over as the statue of David
Michelangelo saw something in that block of granite
long before anyone else did! Where they saw
imperfections and blemishes, he saw a masterpiece
and he worked diligently to set it free.
So what does God see when he looks at you.
You know what I think
I'm convinced that no matter where you go or what you do
no matter how many faults or failures have blemished your life
whenever God looks at you
he still see's inside of you the potential
that he created in you when he was fashioning you
and forming you in your mother's womb
My friend, God also has a dream for your life, and he's calling to that potential inside of you
Like Michelangelo called a masterpiece
out of an ordinary-looking stone. My friend God is calling
to you today. Come out in Jesus name!
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