Larry Holdaway - composite deities

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studies of deities worshipped in modern times

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Religion is touchy. It actually spawns from the curse of conscience. As people began to evolve to have minds capable of predicting death or at least able to realize that each of us will die, religion and belief in something more after life here became necessary for sanity. It keeps people weak of mind comfortable. Religion was also used economically. Before the Industrial Reveloution in Euprope, the wealth was concentrated in 2% of the population mostly amoung land owners. To keep it this way, they would simply say all good people will get just rewards once in Heaven. This explains the Muslim extemists who feel blowing themselves up earn them 3 rivers, honey, milk, and 40 virgins.

(2005.05.31 04:59:44) - Comment by Dallas Love (69.21.169.31)

I like the idea of using several photographs to make one composite image, and tying it to the idea that the Bible was also comprised of writings from different people to make one greater piece of work. Good stuff.

(2005.02.09 00:08:45) - Comment by stephanie (209.178.167.224)

He looks kind of red-haired and somewhat effeminate. Strange that so many people accept a certain image of this 2000-years-dead guy. Marc says it looks almost like Dan.

(2005.02.08 23:29:43) - Comment by Abby Goldsmith (67.112.166.2)

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Composite Messiah

	A composite of 103 images of the Christian Messiah. Included were paintings, drawings and photographs of actors playing Christ.

	The source images used to generate this composite consist of paintings, drawings, photographs of sculptures, and images from popular media (such as television or film). By creating these images, it is my intent to uncover clues regarding the collective, cultural representation of deity, and to inspire discourse. The image is created by compositing (combining, layering, averaging) groups of exisiting photographs (or other images) into a single work. The process is achieved by manually aligning each image, then scanning and layering them using custom written software.

	20 x 30 in. digital print

	Copyright © 2005 Larry Holdaway

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Year	Title	Size	Media
2005	[ Composite Messiah ]	20 x 30 in.	digital print
2005	Composite Buddha	20 x 30 in.	digital print
2005	Composite Yahweh	20 x 30 in.	digital print
2005	Composite Brahma	20 x 30 in.	digital print
2005	Composite Vishnu	20 x 30 in.	digital print
2005	Composite Shiva	20 x 30 in.	digital print
2005	The All-God	20 x 30 in.	digital print