Jesus died....

thanks Paul I guess if I’m not going to be popular or make lots of sales I may as well just start posting stuff I actually like myself. :)

Indeedy I totally agree – your on the money there ;)) I like this too – the energy, story and design.

Excellent photo – love it. Reminds me of something similar I saw years ago but didn’t have a camera with me at the time :-(

some times the truth is the hardest of all conviction to reveal, good work , we are only human

You find the most interesting graffiti.

WOW a Very angry young person I would guess = ( I have been at war with God myself before. Good thing he is patient = )
Very powerful photo.

This photo is very troubling for me. It is a sad reality that there is such intense forces to discredit God. Thank you for posting this. It reminds me of the kind of prayer that is needed for the world we live in. I pray the author has come to a different conclusion. Nice job with this photo. Thanks again.

Thank you for finding it. Its a great photo.

I just submitted a picture at Artismurder and it involves writing on the wall. Nasty writing behind a girlfriend I’m photographing with light coming in a window. I bring it up because my present wife said the girl friend must have wrote it! That photo is 30 years old and if it were not for my film scanner I would have never noticed it.

thanks everybody for your wonderful responses to this picture. I hesitated for a while as I’d previously posted a shot of some “graffitihttp://www.”redbubble.com/people/juileep/art/157792-5-god-bless-the-mentally-ill! near where I live and it really upset someone. So I realised that this image also has the capacity to upset someone out there. So its not personal, its just a photograph. But is has its own message.

damned link. try this God bless the mentally ill!

MntMan I’d love to see that old photo.

Scott and vonne this image is from the same time and place and people as in to death us do drug

I so hope this link works. fingers crossed.

This would make a great T-shirt.

thanks Bodacia I hadn’t thought of that.

this is awesome.

Nicely taken – I like the faint colours in the shot, giving it more of a ‘documentary’ feel.

thanks melissa. :)

Hi Bernt2 I’m glad you like this image. the colour devives from it being a b/w negative that I have scanned with a RGB profile. In order for this to be a true b/w I would need to convert the profile to greyscale which I would normally do but I liked the delicate colours of the image. Seems to give it a bit more depth.

What a great piece. Worth the wait.

thanks Kerry.

gee this is a bit over the top. but I guess it is just graffitti. very brave

very cool shot!

thanks scott.

Great shot, love the framing of it, as well as the sentiment – people are entitled to their own beliefs, there are many many different creation myths in the world, of which christianity is just one.

thanks Damien one of my very favorite creation myths was written by JR Tolkien. Its called the simillrion (?) and is not much more that a long essay but its amazing.

WOW!
I don’t agree with what it says, but I like it!!!

Thanks Daniel. This is not a comment from me just an observation that I was able to capture.

i think when it comes to art you don’t need to agree or disagree with the message necessarily and it can be appreciated for its artistic value. I may not agree with the phrase but I still think it is a wonderful photo and very powerful. Art is an outlet and you’ve captured that here. It is a great shot and I’m glad you decided to post it!

thanks for your wonderful comments mrslowney….:)

This photo does make me sad because the person who wrote the message must have been in an awfully lonely place in life. My heart goes out to that person.

The fact that the message is not true does not take away from the fact that you have framed this beautifully and captured the emotion of the moment.

Love it.

I like this alot! well done for deciding to upload things you like yourself! Great work.

what better allegory for a broken faith than a torn umbrella. this is so powerful on so many levels.

defiant till the end, all the person has to acknowledge is something greater than oneself.

Classic. Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw years ago.
‘Jesus Saves. At East West Credit Union.’

It’s the only way to be truly saved I think. What is it? 7.5% at the moment.

Cool shot. Very urban.

great image

great photo, it was the lighting i think that drew me to it first. the words are from
Reality Asylum by Crass

priceless. a great piece. btw the positioning of the umbrella (incidental or deliberate) is brilliant : )

As opposed to everyone else, apparently, I was drawn to this piece of art because I think it speaks some truth, in a sense. I don’t believe Jesus died for my sins. I don’t believe he necessarily died for his own, either, but if there is a god of any sort, I doubt an execution that took place 2000 years ago has much bearing on my life today.

That aside, the piece is fascinating. It could say “I own 20 penguins” and still have a wonderful, artistic quality to it.

I love this. Nice message really cool picture =)

Wow, this is fabulous!
It brings back memories of a squat I once knew of… one of the occupants was a formerly homeless but very crazy religious zealot taken in out of sympathy. He covered every bit of every wall with intricately written ramblings taken from the bible. When he wasn’t scrawling all over the walls he was cooking jam in 5 gal kero tins… I recall this because he grabbed a huge bundle of my records and used them as a lid on the boiling mass… you can imagine the shape of the records as a result!

Great picture!
Please check out some of by work!!

Sometimes little bits of wisdom are found in such places. Excellent photograph and the lighting is almost surreal. Well done.

Bah on popularity! Even when it is genuine it is fleeting. Art endures. Garbage rots. I think your work will endure. :-)

Interesting photo, Juilee. I believe an excellent title for this would be “Lost Hope.” (1 Chronicles 29:15)

graffiti with purpose i like it alot good thinking to get a shot :)

There’s a big place in my heart for those who live on the streets. I love that Umbrella and papers in this it really brings alive the message of the writer. It’s likea spritual finger flip. Great documentation Juilee.

you know wat you are just a hatefull person jesus died for all of our sins he never sined!!!!!!!! so if you got something to say e-mail me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROFLMAO Jeebus bless you all. hahahaha

oh boo hoo!!!!!!!!! umm and U need to read more books!!!!!!!!!!!! dont be tell me wat i need to read cuz u the one tat need to read more books!!!!!!!!!! thank u very much!!!!!!!!!!!!
sinceraly, butch