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Published: 2019-07-17 00:29:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 134609; Favourites: 1732; Downloads: 0
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This is a follow up to my project from yesterday. This time I wanted to focus on two important roles of the mother: self sacrifice and pouring into.All images by me. The arrows and the shield were made using 3D tools in photoshop. And the models, of course, are my wife and son!
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Saw the 'Two Roles of a Father' first,
And just like that one,
I love the message in this picture ^w^
And y'know,
The fact that she smiles while shielding and teaching her boy
Sends out another message methinks:
"The pain / sacrifice is worth the joy".Β
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Brutal and sweet at the same time...Such a strange dichotomy that somehow works so well.
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Hmm π€I love the style of your art. Thatβs a given. I always appreciate seeing it pop up.
I am a bit hesitant on this piece. I believe the symbolism shows a mother taking the hits/making the sacrifice to protect the child. All this while also teaching.
I get it! Where I hesitate is the title. Is it the role of a mother to take fiery darts? What comes to mind is the armor of God and the shield of faith that should quench every fiery dart. This, just to me, appears as if mom is using her shield to only block fiery darts on another person (Her child of course). I am not against a sacrificial love as this is the love of God! I am simply skeptical of appearing like everything is okay when you are actually being hit by the devil. Not attacked by the devil, but hit multiple times, and bleeding out...but acting like itβs okay. I would not want mothers to assume that is their lot. Satan shouldnβt be hitting mothers like this and succeeding while mothers ignore it right? π€
I hope I am not too critical. I always enjoy your art. It is brilliant. I even enjoyed this piece regardless of my hesitation to accept its message π.
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My mom has this as her background for her phone.
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As a woman, I adore this piece. Beautiful artwork and message 
To those who have been critical of this image, I just want to say that to me, this image shows even more strength than the image of the father. It's one thing to use a shield. It's another thing to use *your own body* as a shield. Doesn't the latter require even more bravery and strength? The fact that this mother is full of arrows just goes to show how much sacrifice it takes to be a mother. Men and women are indisputably different, so mothers and fathers put different things into raising children. I once heard a very true quote: "A mother can only be as happy as her saddest child." Generally speaking (there are of course exceptions), that's simply what mothers do. Mothers feel. To take away a mother's sensitive and compassionate and empathetic nature is to take away motherhood itself. Motherhood is wonderful and fulfilling, but it also hurts. A lot. Mothers hurt when they see their children hurting. Mothers hurt when they protect their children. Mothers will literally give their lives for their children. The fact that a mother has to sacrifice so much of her body and experience excruciating pain just to give birth to a child is evidence of this. And yet... they will all tell you it's worth it! This image is not only powerful, but accurate. It's rare that I see an image that celebrates womanhood in a realistic way more than this piece.
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I'm in love with your work!!! I think it's stunning! I saw it on facebook and looked you up! did not disappoint! I'm obsessed with what I'm seeing! You are such an amazing artist!!!Β
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Β I've got to say, a lot of non-Christian friends of mine see this and what they take from this is that, when this picture is put in the context of their own personal experience, women are seen as almost disposable. That the suffering of a woman is tragic but beautiful and necessary for the church. In a way that's not true for men. The man doesn't bleed as he gives his daughter flowers. Also, I'm curious as to why the mother is giving the son a book but the father is giving his daughter flowers. are you saying that the son is being raised to be wise but the daughter is just being told that she's pretty and deserves flowers? I must be confused about the symbolism there
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Your wife and son are both beautiful.Β
But this image...not so much.Β And not so Biblical either.
Ephesians 6 tells the believer to personally take up the shield of faith (as part of the armor of the Spirit), which will extinguish the flaming arrows of Satan.Β NOT that a mother's faith provides or guarantees spiritual protection for her children.Β And certainly not that she is required to martyr herself and smile as she bleeds from Satan's attacks against her.Β The father's faith fully protects him in your picture.Β The mother is wounded and bleeding, with none of the promised protection from her faith found throughout Scripture.Β Is it supposed to be enough that she's finding "joy" of knowing she suffered "for the good of her children"?
This is being posted all over social media, adding to the burden placed on Christian mothers to feel responsibility for and strive to ensure the "spiritual perfection" of their children at all costs and sacrifice; a burden that harms both women and their families.
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www.facebook.com/FaithInGod247β¦
This page is using your photo without linking out to you.Β Just making you aware.Β If it wasn't for the name on the bottom I wouldn't have been able to find you here.
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Why is the mother taking arrows and your painting of the father, he is shielding all the arrows? It seems like the message here is the mother is a martyr and losing strength as she protects her child. If she takes the arrows, that weakens her from her full capacity to be a mother. Do you see your wife as the one taking the arrows on behalf of the children and you aren't?Β I'm confused. I'd love to understand a deeper meaning to why your wife is bloodied.
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I appreciate your concern for the image, and I'll try to explain best I can. I chose two roles for both the father image and the mother image. However, there are many many many roles for each. I just wanted to single out two of them for each image. The one of the mother I chose was self-sacrifice and pouring into. A mother will sacrifice for her children and not be distracted by the pain she feels. She will still love on her child all the same. So thats why I created this image, to show a mom "ignoring" her pain so she can focus on her child.Β
For the father picture, I could have just as easily done one with self sacrifice. The Bible calls on fathers and husbands to live in a sacrificial way. To lay down their lives for the ones they love. But I chose two different roles for the father image, protecting and cherishing. The mother does those roles as well. I didn't want these image to be seen as the only roles of a mother and father. Many of them overlap.
Hope this helps explain my thought process! I would like to do one with a father loving in a sacrificial way as well. Maybe later this summer!
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Well I appreciate you trying to explain. But I have to be honest, it didn't really resolve the concern but cemented the feeling it portrays. Mothers DO feel pain and ignoring that is actually not healthy in any way! Not good emotionally, physically, spiritually or mentally. There are natural sacrifices that mother's and father's make. But it is also their role to not just sit in an unhealthy place (which is the message I'm seeing here because blood is a strong symbolic message and you can't deny that loss of blood is loss of life!) and sacrifice to the point of harm. Their role is to move beyond, to protect themselves in order to be capable of assisting/helping children navigate the world.Β Also if parents completely shield their children from all darts that may come their way, they have not allowed the opportunity for resiliency. I will be chewing on this piece for a long time. I'm trying hard to find something positive to take from it. I like your play of light and dark in many of your pieces. But I'm still struggling with this and the message here feels painful and seems to send a very unhealthy message. I see a large number of people who love this and I wonder if there really are that many martyr mothers out there who may be passing on an unhealthy message to their own children. It has surely given me plenty of thought and I hope you will understand my comments.
How about another piece that shows mothers leading and not just sacrificing?Β Isn't that really their role?Β Mothers lead their child to safety and help children navigate the maze of life. They can't always shield, nor should they from the hardships of life. But again, its hard to remove the symbolism of blood since that is life sustaining. One can lead without losing blood.
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I appreciate the feedback! And I understand your point of view and what you are saying. I hope that my art does not cause you any pain or uncomfortable feelings. I am just an artist and I create pieces of art from my perspective. That's the beauty of art- there are so many types of pieces of art out there and we won't always like all of them. There are just too many different perspectives that it's impossible to agree with them all. I'm thankful for your kind word about my other images though. I'll be creating new pieces more this summer. Have a great week!
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Beautiful. I absolutely love your work and pieces like this are a big reason why.
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