Welcome to my new post and today, I'm sharing with you an art I completed last month that talks about our identity as humans.
Irrespective of race, tribe, culture and religion, man came from a single source; God. If we look into the story of creation from the perspective of different religions, we'd be pointed to the fact that God moulded man and breathe into him.
However, my point originates from the Christian view, from the book of Genesis chapter 1 verse 26. It says "and God said, let us make man in our own image" which is to say we are the image of God.
I see myself through the eyes of a king, because that's our identity from inception, but sometimes we do not realize this, sometimes we do but the weight of things around us tell so much on us that our crowns become faded and insignificant.
What we do not know cannot have effect on us, if we aren't aware of our royalty, we can't live like kings, hence our crown decreases and we get lost in the struggle and the war life brings.
The little crown on the Muse's head should have been bigger, but because of our state of despair, we forget our identity and our essence begins to fade away.
The clock represents Time. Everything we go through is a phase that'll pass, I think we should hold on to time, on to hope...
The chessboard background is a metaphor for life itself. Life's a battle ground, in life, we struggle for survival etc. I used the colour blue to represent his mood and the colour purple represents royalty.
Genesis is the begining of things and in most begining , nothing is usually clear, nothing usually makes sense and I think the moment we know ourselves and where we are headed towards, our journey becomes smooth irrespective of the thorns that'll be on the way
I worked on this piece using Charcoal and Acrylic on paper. And I spent almost a month.
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