Michelle here. Virtually.
The photo is an image of me, but what do you think this picture itself is composed of? Would you believe it’s text from the Bible? Although my sister told me how she created this, I’m not a computer geek, and so all that really stuck with me is that she played around with the image, taken from an original photo, on Photoshop. You can also see the image at her blog, Once Upon A Time….
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That should go on the sidebar somewhere, like Jimmy’s picture.
Word!
Cool pic, but does your sister know what “meretrice” means?
And the point of making a picture of oneself out of the…text of Scripture…is, what again?
Ed, it’s art.
There is a whole field of “Book Art,” i.e., making artistic things out of books.
See, for example:
http://centerforbookarts.org/exhibits/alteredpage/catalog.html
Thing of all the artistic things you could do if you started using the CCL as an artistic material?
How about paper mache’ swords made of CCL?
Or maybe a prison, with the bars made of CCL pages?
You get the idea?
Yes, I know what it means.
April
“And the point of making a picture of oneself out of the…text of Scripture…is, what again?”
As the title of the blog post on my sister’s site puts it, the purpose was “Photoshop Phun.”
BTW, I didn’t “[make] a picture of [myself]”; my sister chose a picture of me to use in the Photoshop experiment.
If someone made an e-picture of ANYone using the text of the CCL, I’d say, gee. cute. and go on to the next thing in life.
If they use the text of Scripture to do it, it strikes me as, well, it just strikes me. Maybe it’s a generational thing. We just think we can do cutesy computer art with something other than God’s word.
Sorry if people don’t like my not liking it. But if they can post it, I can comment on it, right?
that should have been “I just think” not “we”
michelle-
i’m surprised no one else so far has commented on how quite pretty you are- even Photoshopped!
A: According to Michelle’s left eyelid, we are saved by faith alone
B: No! Look at what’s written on her left index finger..
A: But that must be read in the context of the third fingernail, and the left earlobe!
B: That’s eisegesis. Her earlobe isn’t even showing.
I think during WYD they had everyone send in personal photos, and they put them all together and made a giant picture of Pope John Paul II.
Can anyone tell if there is a wedding ring on Michelle’s left ring finger? 🙂