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Details of The Tree of Life (Árbol de la Vida) by Metepec artist Adrián Luis González, at the Musical Instrument Museum in Scottsdale, Arizona. 

The sculpture comprises hundreds of modeled elements made of painted, unglazed red clay. The tree depicts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, a throng of angels, and dozens of Day of the Dead calacas playing musical instruments at a funeral. González typically inserts his own likeness in his sculptures. A small sculpture-within-the-sculpture showing González constructing one of his árboles is placed en abyme in a hidden corner of the MIM piece. 

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And as I breathe, so does she

(words from Zephyrus by the oh hellos stitched into leaves)

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swans by hilma klint

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Jeremy Miranda, USA The Deep End (2 August 2023) acrylic on panel 50.9 x 81 cm

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Pam Ellick - What is Meant for You Will Not Leave You, 2022

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[writes about Jesus but it’s actually about being trans] [writes about being trans but it’s actually about Jesus]

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A fawn curled up beside a fake deer which is used for target practice. 

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Ignaty Ignatévich Nivinsky Saint Sebastian

etching, 1926

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Lizz Hamilton

Every Prayer Card I Had in My House (3rd Configuration)

Paper, plastic, and metal ephemera

2016

lizzhamilton.com

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do you ever just think about Jesus living here on earth 

i think sometimes we tend to think He just bounced from one miracle to another and everyday was a Bible story but His ministry lasted for three years and the Gospels don’t actually cover that much so

imagine all those ordinary days?? 

He probably had favorite foods and morning routines and sore dirty feet from walking while sweat ran in His eyes in the hot Judean sun and He got blisters and hiccups and colds and maybe He snored 

all the times He laughed till He cried and i bet He had inside jokes with His disciples. imagine having an inside joke with the person who gives you breath to laugh in the first place 

and He had human skills He knew how to build a house and cook and wash his clothes and read 

passing food at the dinner table and bumping hands with Jesus 

talking about silly inconsequential things like the weather 

maybe some nights John was sleepy and he leaned against Jesus and could hear His heartbeat 

maybe some nights a disciple had insomnia and he climbed out of his bedroll to find Jesus sitting against a rock, looking up at heaven, and they sat and watched the stars together 

(the God of the universe looking up through short-sighted eyes at His creation, and the disciple wants so badly to ask what it was like to shape each star, but he looks at those calloused human hands and something in him trembles) 

do you ever think that the ordinary days so far outnumbered the miraculous ones that the disciples, sometimes, almost forgot

and then He goes and turns water into wine and feeds five thousand people from a kid’s lunch and brings dead Lazarus walking alive out of the tomb and they just kind of lose their breath

not because they didn’t expect deity to accomplish the impossible but because this God has been livingwith them

it’s not the miracles that are unthinkable

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Robert Gligorov: Transfiguration (2008)

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Sampler Quilt, about 1885 Possibly New York

Speed Art Museum

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"Blessing from the Bear God"

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Katch Silva

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Sinead O'Connor

by Albert Watson

1992