acrylics, inks, for eyes: spit/saliva(my own) and dirt from backyard mixed with some pva glue, on canvas 75×60 cm

another sp?
relates to the bible scripture where Jesus heals the blind man …smearing over his eyes a paste made out of spit and dirt
one of those passages in bible which really does call for some ‘lateral thinking’
not surprisingly the final stage of ‘gestation’ of this image came by being given to read a book called “Muddy Spirituality” (in this book Jon Owen gives a very succinct distinction between what is icon and what is idol : icon being an image leading to God while idol being an image leading to it’s self only)
I am myself surprised by rather ‘sombre’ look of this picture and yet I did not mean it to be a sad, distressing image – just true
it’s about impossibility of seeing the “divine” in our lives in some safe sanitised way – it’s never “clean” … it’s always dirty, sweaty, muddy …… simply real …. and yet – divine