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Mission Cambodia 07'

This is a wall painting I just did with students in Miama Kenya in 2006. I taught a couple of art classes and did this group project with students. We shared Genesis in the bible and talked about what God created on the earth and drew on the wall.

Mission Kenya 06'

When I was in Kenya, I was surprised by their poverty as well as their education system. When I was asking one of teacher in Kenya to translate the term, “artist”, they said “they don’t have that term”. Obviously, there was starving children, so no one was quite caring about arts. But that conversation reminded me the art world in Manhattan here I am belong to. Arts these days is quite corrupted. They are celebrating despairs and darkness. People think that artists are someone who is addictive and act weird. To be considered as a piece of art these days, it has to be sexual, violent, eccentric, or addictive. We don’t celebrate beauty, or nature or our Lord Jesus any more.
In Kenya and Cambodia where no one does arts to be different or famous, I could purely focus on the purpose of arts. With those kids who was never taught coloring, we could celebrate the fact God created this world so good, beautiful as well as he also giving us to create something like him.

I agree that what Erwin Raphael Mcmanus says in his book “Uprising- a revolution of the soul-". He says that
It is funny how we describe endless self-indulgence as “freedom.” The truth of the matter is that very quickly our pleasures become indulgences and our indulgences become addictions. The final analysis reveals that our sin reduces us to living as slaves to addictive patterns, destructive habits, and unfulfilling ruts. Rather than living more creatively and with greater freedom, we find ourselves controlled by our cravings and tragically conforming to the pattern of this world. We should not forget that in Eden there was on option fro evil and endless options for good. A life without God is a place of endless creativity; it only feigns uniqueness. Without God in the end, we all find ourselves looking same….