Chance of Fate

                                                           A PORTRAIT OF GOD


This brief is an examination of our thinking and where our views and beliefs come from. We were asked to create designs, illustrations, photographs and even to advertise and promote our ideas based on our own heartfelt beliefs.

                                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gx1Pv02w3Q

                                                 (Date Accessed 18th January 2013)

This is one of my favorite song by Joan Osborne. When I heard this song for the first time.

It made me think of what if Gods prescence is in all those vulnerable people or he could be one

of them sent to test us.  

We are all an Image of God and God is in one of us regardless our individual beliefs. 

I believe that's God is the good part in all of us. The spiritual force called faith.

                               

                                         Senior de los Milagros Cathedral de Buga, Colombia.

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                                                         (Dated Accessed18th Nov 2012)

I was born in Colombia where 90% of the population, myself included, were raised as Roman Catholics.  I attended Roman Catholic Schools and our culture and traditions have deep Catholic roots which date back to our colonial occupation by the Spaniards in the early 16th Century. 

                                              St Domingo Church from Buga, Colombia

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                                                           (Dated Accessed18th Nov 2012)

Christianity was however largely forced upon our indigenous population who possesed their own polythestic totemistic religions at the time.  The people were civilised and lived together in large organised societies but had far inferior weapons compared to their European invaders who helped themselves to all the gold that they could find.

If you look at the history of any human civilization around the world during the Paleolithic era you will see that many of the first tribal ceremonies involved the grouping of people to gather food and to hunt.  As their societies evolved more spiritual behaviour began such as burial and rituals.

Societies and religions have developed over time and while they may have different names and concepts they all have much in common including the human belief that we were essentially created by a higher power.

                                                                 

                                                                   FACE 2 FACE 

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(JR Photographer, 28 Feb 2007)

This video trailer is a photography project by JR Photography.  The one aspect that called my attention was that all religions interviewed agree that we have been created in the image of God.  So perhaps we are not that different after all.

NOTE: This project is still under constrution

                                                ABOUT MY PROJECT DESIGN

                                                                      Fig. Idea No1


Idea No1 Is about building a telescopic box with 4 windows.  There will be a door at the front which gives the viewer a step by step tour of the evolution of religion.

a).  Paleolithic Cave Paintings

It started with a cave painting from the Paleolithic timewhich depicts the sacrificing of animals.  This dates back to between 15000 BC and 9000 BC.

b).  Image of Praying Hands

A sign of organised religion or creation of different religions.

c).  Politician doing his Campaign.

Showing that politics and religion can be used to manipulate minds.

d).  Mirror

The final window is a mirror where the viewer is forced to look at themselves with religion in mind.  Do you question your religious beliefs of follow with a blind faith.

 Note: This project is still under construction                                           

                                                         

                                                                   Fig. Idea No2

Idea No 2 I have decided to take the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to represents my religion, Christianity.  The mirror instead of Jesus’s face is a representation of faith as a spiritual force in which every one of us in society should live a life of mutual respect and good will. 

By looking in the mirror the viewer will perhaps question the good (and bad) that they do in the world.

Which version would Jesus have known?

	Jewish	Catholic	Protestant*
I	I am the Lord your G-d who has taken you out of the land of Egypt.	I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.	You shall have no other gods but me.
II	You shall have no other gods but me.	You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.	You shall not make unto you any graven images.
III	You shall not take the name of the Lord your G-d in vain.	Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day.	You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
IV	You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy.	Honor your father and your mother.	You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy.
V	Honor your mother and father.	You shall not kill.	Honor your mother and father.
VI	You shall not murder.	You shall not commit adultery.	You shall not murder.
VII	You shall not commit adultery.	You shall not steal.	You shall not commit adultery.
VIII	You shall not steal.	You shall not bear false witness.	You shall not steal.
IX	You shall not bear false witness.	You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.	You shall not bear false witness.
X	You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.	You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.	You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

The Catholic Ten Commandments are a summary of "the conditions of a life freed from the slavery of sin" (Catechism, 2057).

They must be understood in relation to the "law of love": Love of God and love of neighbor summarize all of Catholic morality. The law of love is also the first principle & source of the moral law. It contains "all the law and the prophets" (Mt 22:40).

Bibliography:

dymphnaroad .blogspot. cu.uk./2012/01/ sacred-heart-of-Jesus.html

http://www.biblicalheritage.org/bible%20studies/10%20commandments.htm

http://www.beginningcatholic.com/catholic-ten-commandments.html