Galeileos Middle Finger Print

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This painting holds everything I experienced during my time in Florence. Though the act of painting only took a few weeks, the piece itself is the product of months of questioning, reflecting, and unraveling my relationship to religion, politics, identity and the two countries I’m sandwiched between.The work is named after my father, who lost his middle finger in an accident — an event that triggered his transformation from Catholicism to a fierce vengeful atheism. Also Galileo, who’s middle finger is still around as a reliquary and who changed science. I didn’t grow up religious, which I think puts me at a unique perspective of critique and admiration of religion. Many people think the atheist world view is nihilistic sorrow, but I find peace and beauty in the randomness of everything. Though religion has caused a lot of pain and is often used as a weapon to bludgeon the oppressed, there is art and hope in its wake, which I can also marvel at, just as I marvel at cathedral windows.

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This painting holds everything I experienced during my time in Florence. Though the act of painting only took a few weeks, the piece itself is the product of months of questioning, reflecting, and unraveling my relationship to religion, politics, identity and the two countries I’m sandwiched between.The work is named after my father, who lost his middle finger in an accident — an event that triggered his transformation from Catholicism to a fierce vengeful atheism. Also Galileo, who’s middle finger is still around as a reliquary and who changed science. I didn’t grow up religious, which I think puts me at a unique perspective of critique and admiration of religion. Many people think the atheist world view is nihilistic sorrow, but I find peace and beauty in the randomness of everything. Though religion has caused a lot of pain and is often used as a weapon to bludgeon the oppressed, there is art and hope in its wake, which I can also marvel at, just as I marvel at cathedral windows.