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Thursday, November 26, 2009
The Minds of James Gardner
this is my cousin james. i dont know exactly what to say about this peice but i do know that it is an accurate portrayal ofhis mind before he was converted. how can i know that?! he told me so. when i first showed him this peice he looked at it for a few minutes in silence and then said that he has never seen anything like it and that it was right on with how he felt and thought.
the plurality of his person represents his instsability and lack knowing who he was. he would migrate from personality to personality each being determined by his awdience and the way he felt. it also shows that there was a very large ammount of darkness in his life, contained in the confinds of his cell-like inner world. the checkered floor shows the alternation of happiness and sadness, good and evil, peace of mind and instability. all these states of mind were unfortunately reached by the very thin line of cercomstance from moment to moment. the ribbon further illustrates this feeling of being bound in such an existence- his cell now becomes ever more small as he is forced to feel, with incresing intimacy, his sad existence in all its potency. such spiritual claustraphobia forces its victums to further feel their pain and in his situation he definately felt some pain. but look at his faces...does he seem pained? perhaps he was well experienced with this old friend (pain) who causes so many to be troubled, but he-numb. each focus, or mindset is different but notice that each looks up, each senses at least a general directon of light. and thankfully there he went-every one of him. there is nothing in this cell of his, look by his feet-nothing! No real friends, no sign of a purpose, nothing of real worth is before him here. such darkness and emptiness demands, no pleads for, an excape. James Gardner found his way out some time in 2005 and has recognized the light for what (and who) it is ever since then. he is happily married (and sealed) now with 2 beautiful young daughters and is living in Gilbert, AZ. i have never seen such a change in a human being! he is a living testimony of Christ and the truth. Love you james.
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