Existance Grows From Itself

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I created this Double Page Spread artwork for a brief given to me during my final year at Vega.

The task was to demonstrate ones abillity to utilize typography in the most effective way.

RATIONALE:

Discussing my personal understanding of the Gospel through the use of design was challenging.

It has shown me to not only rely on what I had learnt throughout my childhood going to church but that I should search for the truth myself.

So having searched, I discovered that many christians don’t understand what they believe in? They have absolutely no clue what the Gospel really means.

Not to pass judgement, but many don’t know that the scriptures writen in the bible have a completely different meaning when they are read with

understanding the context and authors original intent.

I chose this brief because I grew up in a family that went to church every Sunday. I was taught many things that I just went along with and never questioned. Now, at the age of 23 having begun my life as a young adult, finding my way through life. The very things I have been taught as a young child had begun to surface more and more profoundly. Life began to change the way I thought of the Gospel and inevitably what I thought of myself. Infact, the very changes made more sense than the reason why I had to make them. This left me in a place of seeking. Seeking to find out and understand why my beliefs did not make any sense.

I began to dig deep into scriptures along with doctrines outside and within the christian church. I found that many of the texts within the bible have been translated many times over, thus leaving the original meanings hidden in plain site. The original context of the texts have been changed to fit a readers’ liking, making the bible more reader friendly and easy to mass produce. Ultimately, leaving everybody who interprets the texts to be somewhat comfused and mislead.

The original texts in the New Testament, were writen in a way that the author dealt with mans old way of thinking before christ came, and then proceeded to raise a new way of thinking now that christ had come. The authors were trying to tell people that there was a new way of thinking that gave them clarity and perspective. Their main underlying message was not that jesus came to pay a price for mankind because we had become terrible and Sinful, But that Jesus died to reveal how much we are worth to God. His death was a reflection of how much he loves us and not that God was or is angry at man. Jesus revealed our worth, He revealed to the world that we were being brought back into a relationship with the father through him. Jesus did good on earth. He saw us as his family, to be loved and cherished. He only sees the best in us because that is His truth and therefore it is ours.

This however is not the Gospel one would hear in church nowdays, as it is seen as blasphamy. Funny enough, this is the same message that Jesus preached and he too was labelled blasphamous. I find it strange that the world is not willing to aknowledge that God is real. I would simply say, that it is because the world does not know who He is. If the scriptures are read out of context they often paint a picture of a God that hated the fallen world He created and therefore had to send His Son to save His creation from going to eternal hell!

After processing my thoughts and working through different executions. I concluded that the best way to show what i was thinking was to compose a pieace/artwork that has all the elements of great design and content, that would depict the very true Gospel that I have recently come to know. The reason behind this artwork is that I wanted to lead the reader/viewer to ponder wether or not they believed what they believe in or if they believe what somebody else believes. The artwork is the instrument/vehicle I am using to tell the world about God. I wanted to invoke a feeling in the the reader/viewer the need to read up more about the Gospel and to make up their own mind. To rightfully disect the Word of God and to understand its true meaning and context.

Executing my final artwork in the form of a DPS for a magazine, where readers engage in articles that are spiritually stimulating, is exactly what I had in mind.

The 3D render of the word “Existance”, was based on the idea that God spoke light into existance. Inside the word, light can be seen shinning through from behind. This effect was to give off the idea that there is more to come. That God is endless and infinite. Adam and Eve can also be seen standing in the word, as tho they are walking out of God himself. This concept is what the whole artwork is based on.

ARTICLE:

THE GOSPEL HAS COME A LONG WAY

Throughout History, the Truth has pushed and weaved and curled its way forward. Sure we could beg to differ with our poetic, petty, intelectual, or just downright augmentative opinions, but it can be largely agreed upon that the Truth is the only way forward (dispite the inevitabilities of man’s struggle with fleshly misdirection). “Misdirection?”, I hear you question, how rude of me not to elaborate and no, not the kind of misdirection that lands little old ladies in grumpy Toyotas in ghetto hoods. No, I am talking about misdirection that merely means error, or mistake or simply the forgetfullness of ones identity.

Now, again I feel the question bubbling in that head of yours dear reader and its probably along the lines of , “What on earth are you going on about?”.
Well, I am speaking about the Truth, of course. Not the Truth that you know, or the Truth I had previously known, but the Truth that is ! I mean this in no nasty or accusing tone, I simply want to point out that with a new heart and renewed mind there is no longer any lie that can force the Truth to be slowed down since it is so expected to be unexpected and misleading.

Now let us briefly go back to a time when fire was a recent discovery and loincloths were acceptable.

I would like to deem this the very pinpoint that thereafter the Truth took a long walk.

We all know that when the Truth becomes known it gives birth to sight and perspective.

This Truth however was different as it was the knowledge of freedom throughout its tempremental history.
A Truth so illustrated by many men through rules and law, yet a Truth that could not commence forward without one man breaking them.

Jesus did away with the law. Since the spoken words “Let there be light” the Truth has come a long way.
Now Truth has freed us from all the constraints of tradition in the past.

No, Truth cannot be done away with when it is heard, as it has all been portrayed differently before.

I will stretch my historian legs here and dutifully ask,“At what cost did this happen?”.

If you thought there was no price to pay for freedom because of the Truth then the Truth means nothing ,

Jesus does not exist and im writing this for nothing. Then allow me to point out how utterly untrue that is.

Well, at least it is to me. The Truth’s rapid liberation allowed for it to quickly become predictable and stuntted by a looming normalicy.

“What is there left to free ourselves from?”.

Think of Truth as the romantics, dadaists and impressionists did. For all these artists the truth meant something different.

From its function to its character, Truth took no notice to what it couldn’t do and obediently followed the characteristics of its era.

Now think of the Truth today? Who are its speakers? Who aren’t its speakers? Who is still following the old rules?

We are now living in a world where Truth is not freedom , everything has already been revealed.

Sure the Truth these days has become humanistically displaced and extravagant, intricate and provacative leaving love on the back seat.

The way forward has been set already. Or is that just what the romatics, dadaists and the impressionists thought?

Maybe our greatest flaw is not that we have too freely aquired freedom.

Maybe our greatest flaw is that we assume we are free.

'Freedom is a renewed mind like Christs’

“Here we stand soldiers at the front line of a long line behind us
how are we to go forward, when is it so necessary to remove
ourselves completely? There are no more lies, we have exhausted
their length, now the lie kisses the very humble beginning from
which it came, a beautiful life now, Truth is not dead it is simply simple
*and we are but the dizzy tired chosen people sick to death in confusion”.

Written by:
Taila Carboni

Edited by:
Daniel De Sousa