Collage, Acrylic Paint, Installation
The whole work mainly uses black and white acrylic paint and cut as the background, and gold is used to embellish and depict details. The work describes the relationship between human and God in the context of Christianity.
The images of how people believe in God come from Durer's engravings of the Bible. Miracles in the Bible play a key part in the Christian belief system. Medieval Scholasticism also tried to prove the existence of God. At the top of the ring is God, representing heaven, while at the bottom is man, representing the earth, meaning that the interaction between man and God from man's belief to God's spiritual feedback is a closed loop.
Most people think that man is the master of the world, that man controls the earth and himself, and that God is illusory, imagined and created on the premise of man. This painting depicts us from the exact opposite point of view, from God's point of view, what they call God's point of view. Look at the Earth as described by science from the perspective of God. This part, made up of religious stories, is what Christians call Heaven. The Earth in the distance is what people now think of as the Earth, the Earth that people know according to various scientific inquiries. In the modern world, which believes more in science, religious belief has become a discredited existence.
Inspired by the Christian worldview and the relationship between science and society. Only 16% of the world's population has no religious affiliation, and more than half of the world's people live in countries where their religious group is the majority of the population. There is also a lot of religious information in the lives of atheists, religion seems to be very close to people. This makes me wonder, as an atheist, why the majority of people in the world are still willing to believe in religion in the modern era when human beings are gradually exploring the universe and living things and getting a lot of scientific evidence. It got me thinking about what religion really means to people. Among all religions, the largest population believes in Christianity. I take Christianity as the specific religion studied to help me think about how atheists and believers view each other with their respective worldviews.
Elements of circles and clouds appear in both works. the "circle" appears in the neuroverse Isaiah 40:22 (New International Version) : "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,". "He" refers to God, while "above the circle of the earth" is the location of God in the Bible, which is heaven. The Hebrew word for "circle" is gwj, meaning dome, horizon; Sky, sea and earth. Cloud means "covering" in Hebrew because clouds cover the sky. The word was used as a symbol of divine presence, indicating the splendor of the glory it concealed.
First of all, I searched for a large number of Durer's Bible works, from which I selected biblical allusions that could help me create and express as collage elements. I used traditional symmetrical composition to create both works, in order to maintain the mystery and gravitas of Christianity. The simple composition of the picture does not lack the richness of the content.
I made a three-dimensional beam installation for one of the works to make the whole work look closer to ancient Christian art. Both works are embellished with a lot of gold, one is to highlight the difference between the picture and the background, and the other is that the metal color brings the supreme sense of holiness to the religion.