A GOD CALLED GOD

                                                 A God Called God  by Jeremiah Kauffman                                      -                                                                                                                                                                    -     Having grown up in the South, overbearing religiousness has been a thorn in my side. I think what I've always found most irritating about it is it's lack reason and imagination. The world is such a nicer and more interesting place when one appreciates the unexplainable beauty of nature. The mind is capable of providing a feast for the soul, if only one can see past the self-perpetuating ignorance of religion. I wanted to create a symbol in a playful act supposedly creating a new god. I decided to put something else on a cross: something that is unknown. We do not know if this creature is good or bad, a criminal or a martyr, it just is. It is a anthropomorphization of the cross, enacting the drama of suffering but with anonymity because it is not a beloved figure supposedly trying to teach the world something but the cross itself having taken on characteristics which predict it's future use. Just to be clever, I decided to name this god "God".                                                                                               --       by Jeremiah Kauffman     2004          jeremiahkauffman.deviantart.com