Alter Altar
digital, 2015
This file was created in 2015, a few years past. I began using this computer in 2012. In three years I had created a collection of maybe a hundred or more visual images. I chose my favorite characters from the collection in order to create these alternative altars. Altars are places to worship divinities. Since I am so confused, not sure who or what to worship, I created altars that cover many belief systems. And added a few idiosyncratic characters just for fun.
Am I really confused. No. Yes.
Previous to 2012, I had another computer. Since it crashed I have been unable to access the few hundred images files on that computer. Buddha said, "Everything changes but change itself". Get used to it, Grasshopper.
Did you know that Marilyn Monroe was the reincarnation of Venus and Aphrodite? This was Hot News! just a few years ago. Subject to a big controversy between different belief system factors. But what was Hot News! just a few years ago has almost passed into oblivion. You know the news cycle, topics flick in and out like a Bic. So, I brought up the subject so it wont be completely forgotten.
I know that some people will find these pictures offensive. It is hard to know what to say to those people. I would have to start with my strict fundamentalist Christian childhood. Very strict. My parents tried to beat the devil out me and my siblings. They tried to cram me into a very small box. Finding my own way has been a long and continuing journey. I know how judgmental and narrow self righteous people can be. Me, with a bit of PTSD going on, with my Christian programming going on, my mind is on the alert for criticism.
So what can I say to critics?? I want to expand your mind. Stretch out. Humans have made many stories to explain human existence. No one mind set can explain it all. There is truth in many places. Truth is more than we can comprehend with our rational minds.
We are one. Love one another.
