In map art, one paints the canvas with visionary scenes rather than lines of highways and numbered miles.
If I were to paint a visionary map of christianity, I would include a scene of the god colluding with the devil, the forces of creation conspiring with the forces of destruction, to tempt a third party into turning against, renouncing the creative forces. I think I would paint god as a whirlwind and the devil as coyote, the trickster. The third party would be a tiny figure in the distance upon whom they would advance.
A second scene would be an angry war god of dark cloud and lightning eye urging world domination of his followers, small beings who are replicas of himself with sword and shield -- killing "all that piss against the wall" of those outsiders who will not accept this god. Out of them are emerging christian missionaries.
Yet another scene would show a god who had advanced beyond his tempestuous adolescent years and able to say someone has to die so it will be me. He offers himself in sacrifice and disappears. He is no longer cross. A rainbow arcs across a darkly radiant sky.
A fourth scene would be a man awakening as if from a dream, walking across the canvas and beyond the frame. If sound could be painted, heartfelt laughter would be heard.
A fifth scene is a blank canvas upon which new vision can be painted and is being painted eternally anew.
If I were to paint a visionary map of christianity, I would include a scene of the god colluding with the devil, the forces of creation conspiring with the forces of destruction, to tempt a third party into turning against, renouncing the creative forces. I think I would paint god as a whirlwind and the devil as coyote, the trickster. The third party would be a tiny figure in the distance upon whom they would advance.
A second scene would be an angry war god of dark cloud and lightning eye urging world domination of his followers, small beings who are replicas of himself with sword and shield -- killing "all that piss against the wall" of those outsiders who will not accept this god. Out of them are emerging christian missionaries.
Yet another scene would show a god who had advanced beyond his tempestuous adolescent years and able to say someone has to die so it will be me. He offers himself in sacrifice and disappears. He is no longer cross. A rainbow arcs across a darkly radiant sky.
A fourth scene would be a man awakening as if from a dream, walking across the canvas and beyond the frame. If sound could be painted, heartfelt laughter would be heard.
A fifth scene is a blank canvas upon which new vision can be painted and is being painted eternally anew.
"to tempt a third party into turning against, renouncing the creative forces. . ."
ReplyDelete- this is so rich
-thx,
b.