But I am a big picture vision person, and I really wanted to know why, why was God raising up artists, why now? What for? If I am going to be all in to a movement of God in the world, I want to have a clear vision in front of me. So I have been praying about this a lot, and the thought came to me. Now is the time for a renaissance because, we are now a visual generation. The modern era, everything was black and white, cookie cutter the same, it was all bout McDonalds, school uniforms, clubs, franchises. Then the post modern era everything became gray. We muddled around for a while in the loss of absolutes and fuzzy morality, and the realization that we cant all be the same, and cookie cutter shapes don’t work for everyone.
NOW, here we are, in a world where everything is in COLOR. We are rediscovering how we are connected to nature, we are learning to celebrate our differences, everyone is allowed to search out who they are created to be. NOW, we need artists to speak the language of the visual generation who watches TV and movies, and interacts with CG that blurs the lines of reality. We need artists to speak that language, to reach the hearts of those who don’t have the attention span to read a dissertation. This job that we have, to create from the Fathers heart, to have spirit filled spirit led art is IMPORTANT, and necessary. Because there is so much visual stimuli competing for the minds of those around us. We need to speak that language and engage people there.
The other thing that God has been teaching me it that ART is not just to look at. Art is for healing… more on that next time! Thanks for joining me on this journey! - Deborah King