I'm Coming Home

I'm coming home
I'm coming home
Tell the world I'm coming home
Let the rain wash away
All the pain of yesterday
I know my Kingdom awaits
And they've forgiven all my mistakes
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
Tell the world I'm coming home

just a thought...

I've really been drawn to diptychs since our last photo two project and feel that they express a concept or meaning a lot better than a single photo does sometimes. I want my pictures to be more than their common component of hands in my concentration. So what if I put the figurative picture of my subject as dirty or unclean (example: my first two concentration works) next to a picture of my subject gradually getting more and more literally dirty.

First Two Works...

                                                                                     Losing Hope    
                                              

                                                                            I was gonna clean my room...

Central Idea of Concentration: God uses our bad and turns it into good, for His glory.

Through my first two works I began exploring my concentration by demonstrating a couple of things that are known to be used and abused in attempt to "fill" ourselves up. I used these examples because they are two things that no matter who you are or what you believe, society has formed our thoughts into thinking these are wrong. And I don't disagree, but I don't believe they are anymore wrong than a little white lie or a discouraging comment to a stranger or even a loved one. I believe that these are only a couple symptoms that are part of a larger diagnosis. Overdosing on prescription pills and smoking illegal substances are only two of millions upon millions of things that we attempt to find contempt, comfort, worth and happiness in.
 Before I continue, I need to define the word that is the basis of my entire idea for my concentration, and that is the word sin. Sin is the morality and the constraints of human conscience, it is what separates us from God. Sin is more than actions and what we do, but the condition of our hearts. Sin goes beyond the simple wrong things that we do, it's the emptiness and brokenness that is left behind in result of those actions. "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23 God doesn't care about the exact things that we've done wrong, He only cares about sin as a whole. For we ALL have sinned, a murderer and a liar are equal in the eyes of God. The liar is no less of a sinner than the murderer because it results in the same brokenness.
So my first two concentration pieces demonstrate the concept of sin and our separation from love. "God is love." 1 John 4:16
Some problems I have ran into are my thought processes in how to tie my idea in with the actual outcome of my works. I'm hoping that as I continue in my work, I will become more confident in what I'm trying to portray and that my work is actually successful in doing so.
Things I'm doing well... I'm not really sure.
Things I need to work on... A lot. (especially turning projects in on the actual due date)

Worth

What do we put our worth in?

This is a taste of the emotion I want my concentration to convey as a whole when I finish it. I love this video because it shows just a few things that we, as human beings, tend to  gravitate toward and begin to place our worth in. From the opposite sex, to money, to drinking, to friends, to society's view of "beauty",to physical violence, and the list just goes on and on. We run to these things searching for acceptance and fulfillment, yet we get neither. So why do we get stuck on this fast track to nowhere? And if it is to nowhere, why is it so hard to turn around and let go of all of our worthless "things"?? Our answer to acceptance, life, fulfillment and love is right in front of us and is fighting for us at every turn. So why is it so hard to turn around and be embraced by the one who loves and fights for us, who has given everything just so we could know Him?
But what i hope to take away from this video and portray in my pictures are worth. i want there to be a dramatic change from when my subject is putting worth in unfulfillable things, to "turning" around and putting her worth in the only one that can and will fulfill and overflow her with abundant life.
If you get a chance to view the video, i hope you get as, if not more overwhelmed as i do when i watch it.

...maybe Handle With Care is a cry out to others pleading with them to handle "me" with care. Like a when you ship something valuable and the slap it with a sticker that says "handle with care" or "fragile"

I'm thinking I'll create a story of a girl that gets into trouble and gradually works herself out of it from consequences she is forced to deal with along with choices she is obligated to make that formed her future. And so my concentration would be her story, and her plead to others when they view it would be... Handle With Care.

ehh?

 Handle With Care

CONCEPT...
  Bad is turned into Good
 We are handled with care. Though we go through much pain and many struggles, the one who created us loves and cares about us more than anything and anyone. He works to turn our struggles into good for His glory. So basically, my concentration is going to show the transition from pain, hardships and struggles to the goodness that we were designed for and the glory it brings to the one who created the concept love. 

SUBJECT MATTER...
----------> Hands <----------
 I also want to tie my concentration works together by keeping them all black and white. 

Hands!

So what if I did hands?

Concept...

Idea 1: Age. I would demonstrate the walk of life from birth to old age or death.

Idea 2: Spiritual Life. Where do we find freedom? The Spiritual walk from death to life.

Idea 3: How do we define ourselves?

The wheel's still churning...

Inspiration

Concentration?

Not sure what to do for my concentration...



...I have been wrestling with the idea of reflections as a subject matter for my concentration, but have been questioning the originality of it and have begun to want to venture off. If I were to do reflections, I think I would head in a natural direction verse the classic mirror, but I'm not sure if that's the direction i want to head in anymore...