Evangelical and Unawares

Evangelical & Unawares

Sometimes it’s tricky to explain what the hell we were thinking with certain pictures. Not that it means they are any less worthwhile, just that I’m not entirely sure exactly how they came about. And here we have a case in point. Although this lovely lady looks slightly demonic she has actually been described as ‘evangelical & unawares’. Now whilst I’m not 100% sure what all that means I’m a-thinking it’s saying we all have a bad side and a good side. A Yin and Yang if you will – and all the stuff in between. Sadly this girl is naive to it all and still lords it up around town spouting her tuppence worth to any passerby, whether they want to hear it or not. A bit like the fella how hangs round outside Brixton tube really…

Cheers

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Title: Evangelical and Unawares
Materials: Acrylic, spray paint, paint pen, watercolour and glitter
Size: A2
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Let’s all celebrate Saint George…

Let's all celebrate St George...

Not being English I’ve just had to do a little research on Saint George as the only thing I knew about him was the story of George and the dragon. It turns out he was actually a career soldier born somewhere in Syria or Palestine in about 280AD. Apparently he was raised a Christian and was eventually tortured and executed for disobeying an imperial decree regarding his Christianity. Now that’s dedication…

The dragon story is fabricated much later as allegory to show Christianity defeating some kind of ancestral paganism – at least that’s what wikipedia claims. I prefer to think of him of some kind of armoured medieval littlest hobo going from town to town making friends and righting wrongs. And, of course, killing dragons. For no other reason than he’s a good guy with a strong community spirit. That’s who I’ll be raising a glass to later anyway…

Cheers

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PS – Just to clarify, this picture is actually from a couple of years ago but we hadn’t done a post about it before now.