Exhibiton

So... this is my first ""exhibition"". I can safely call it that because the dictionary definition of 'exhibition' (thank you Google) is "a public display of art, skills, activities, etc." My paintings may not classify as art or skills but they were certainly born of a heck of a lot of activity, and in any case our front lawn is almost a public space.

Its title was 'com·pas·sion: noun 1. ...'


The individual works were for my Tafe course... so here's the skinny: I realised that this morning I got up, ate breakfast with my family, and went off to learn. This morning a 5-year-old girl woke early to start work on her day's quota of shoe soles.

This morning a boy was kicked awake and shot for deserting.

This morning a farmer sat staring at the dry field that wouldn't be able to feed his children.

This morning a family lived with the knowledge that they were not wanted.

This morning a men, women and children were killed or maimed in genocide.

(it may be harder to see, but near the bottom of the paint there is a small man's profile)

This morning a child walked a kilometre to find water that will only cause him sickness.

This morning a home was filled with water... and the walls came down.

So this morning I learned and looked and knew that the knowledge must become compassion. The compassion must act.

(... I just don't know how yet)

Yes, it is depressing to re-discover that this planet has its problems, but only because Western society desperately tries to convince itself that few-and-far-between problems can actually be solved by the next purchase we make. God doesn't waste time like that; He got Paul to write, "We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time." (thanks again Google) ...But I love His plan for saving the world! I got to tell my Tafe class that I believed that the only answer to world suffering is God and Him working through people... it was a bit of an internal 'Yes!!' moment and I pray somehow God will use that.

Well, here are some more pics of my """""exhibition""""". Now, at least, I've got plenty of ideas how to improve it for the next time.

(blowing in the breeze - free?)