Can a nation be changed?
I took this photo in Rio de Janeiro of Cristo o Redentor during my gap year. It was really a very happy accident. I took it from Sugar Loaf mountain on one of my last evenings in Rio. I love the image of Christ it portrays it’s kind of got the whole ‘light in the darkness’ thing going on.
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This astonishing 18ft drawing of the world’s most famous skyline was created by autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire after he spent just 20 minutes in a helicopter gazing at the panorama.
I’ll let the images speak for themselves. (images © Barcroft Media)
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My job? I design and build sets for a local amatuer theatre group. This is a set currently in production. Set in a prep school the idea was to go with the traditional look. The Panels are made from pine and stained with antique oak stain and varnish.
Part of an ongoing body of work entitled ‘Taxonomy’. The names of the photo-constructs are taken from butterfly names in latin. Some are posionous and allude to the deteriating nature of our architectural expression. Others are beautiful and express what can be achieved with a ‘good client’. Good clients however seem to be a dying breed; taken over by ravenous developers financed by debt and protected by limited liability at the expense of other people’s risk. I take such architectural demise to be symptomatic of wider economic problems, emboddied most recently as the credit crunch.
Whenever I see streams like this I always think about Jesus’ invitation to come a be filled with living water.