About the Artwork (By Joey Velasco)
Just three days before he was due to graduate from college, my friend Raymund was detained for seven years, accused of a murder he never committed. Instead of succumbing to depression, he taught his inmates math, grammar, reading and writing. He even wrote a book regarding the national criminal justice system. He found himself and his God.
I can identify myself with him when I was confined in a small room due to sickness. I felt the whole gamur of sorrows of the human heart. These raw feelings came as I learned to let go of my old notion that God would take it against me for being so inquisitive. Painting Him led me to believe that He is with me despite his seeming absence. As I painted this youth in jail, it was as though I was looking at myself in a mirror.
When people ask, "What is your medium (in painting)?" I wonder what the Divine artist used as His medium to communicate with us. My trip to a dump site gave me an answer. I was struck by a small tattered 'parol' [a star-shaped lanern] which hung at an abandoned garbage truck. I couldn't help but think of the possibility of Jesus being born in such a lowly place.
A garbage site is one of the saddest and most humiliating sights; children digging into a mountain of muck, at times jumping into the jaws of trucks to salvage things out before they even reach the dump site. These are the outskirts of our community, unnoticed until a tragic garbage slide happens. It is humanity at its worst.
Nothing is more extremely lowly than God becoming a man. He was using the best medium in his art: solidarity with man by becoming as lowly as man. His invitation? To live more in solidarity with man by becoming as lowly as man. His invitation? To live more in solidarity with others than to my own image or rights, my own comforts, or lifestyle. Such is the most amazing medium in the world because it communicates the immeasurable love of God.
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38.5 x 53.5 cm
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