I have made work with religious connotations before, I’m referencing the piece “To Be Human”, the stained glass window I made last year. This work reflects my perception of what is going on in the world right now. With religion being almost at the forefront of controversy. Which to me is strange and odd, although religion itself at this day in age, when taken literally can be, not entirely brainwashing, but very limiting to ones freedom of thought, expression and human rights. It is odd because of what has happened in various religious and cultural communities. So to speak religion and cultures are almost simultaneously divided regionally on the globe and what we have currently are different, individual takes on religious scriptures. So the religion itself, speaking generally is more subjective in most western parts of the world than it has ever been. Thus making the only party represented by these subjective impressions, the individual.
Recently, due to a number of happenings, religious freedom and freedom of belief has come under threat due to the actions of minorities, who take liberty in referring to themselves as part of a religious group, yet house ideologies that are completely opposite to people who worship under the same god and read the same texts. It is difficult to comprehend, but it comes down to the simple fact that religion is a powerful, suggestive political implement, that can be used to justify any form of behaviour, totally interpretable by the reader. The idea that one may acknowledge this and accept this to be the situation, may have the ability to overcome any form of religious discrimination based on the actions of others affiliated by their God. In other words remove the materialisation of the religion, take away the texts power and understand it isn't the paper on ink that makes up a belief, it is the personal connotations and interpretations of the text that makes your religion not only meaningful, but intact and unaffected by the destruction of such a symbol.
The very idea that religion although referred to in extremism as the culprit, people always forget, it is the ideology that fuels the imagery that religion paints.
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