Teen Artwork In Portland
A week ago I was asked to help chaperone a field trip that the Christian Academy high school took to the Portland School Of Art. They were going there because the school had a display of artwork by middle school and high school students.It was an interesting trip. There was some very creative artwork on display. Some of it I didn't care for too much, others impressed me a great deal. One piece of art which really caught my attention was a self-portrait which was hanging right inside the entrance of the school. It was not a painting. It was not a drawing. It was a picture made up of little scraps of black paper, and little scraps of white paper, pasted together onto a canvas.
It was really well done; the pieces of paper were all different sizes and shapes, and it was obvious that the artist took a lot of time on it. If you stood a few feet away, it was very obvious that it was a portrait, but as you stepped closer and closer, the details became lost, and the individual pieces of paper started to stand out. (Isn't that odd...normally when you get closer to a picture, you see more detail, but with this piece of art, stepping closer meant that you lost the big picture, so the details because meaningless.
I got thinking that our lives are a bit like that; each of us is like a tiny scrap of paper in the artwork that God is making out of the universe. Each one of us has our own special place, and each one of us is important in the overall scheme of things; take out any one of us and the picture changes.
But...none of us can see the big picture. We're all too close to our own little section of the canvas to see exactly what God is making out of our lives. The result is that sometimes our own lives don't make a whole lot of sense to us.
This is why trust is so important of our lives. Because no matter how hard we try, we will never, in this world, see the big picture.
I'm going to continue this thought in my next entry (not sure when I'll get to it...don't worry though, Laura, I am going to write about Gilligan's Island!)
Meanwhile...
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Posted On Jan 23, 2006 at 5:04 AM
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