The Truth Parable
30 x 40 x 2 in
Acrylic on Canvas
 
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Earlier this year while our country was having wild disagreements about reality 
I READ A PARABLE ABOUT TRUTH:
 
In it a group of blind men are led to an elephant and each, having never seen an elephant before, puts his hand on a different part and describes what they feel.  One touches the tusk and says, this elephant feels like a spear.  Another touches the leg and argues, No! It feels like the trunk of a tree, and so on.  Each. man is so certain of the information in his hands that he suspects the others of lying and they being to fight.  Finally, someone with sight comes along and explains to them that they are all right, in a way, but also, they are all wrong. 
 
The moral of this story is that each of us experience the truth of our reality in a different way.  Our experience does not make another's untrue or invalid.  Some of us feel the spear and some of us feel the trunk of the tree, but in the end we are all touching an elephant. 
 
ANGELS WITH BLIND FOLDS Instead of BLIND MEN
 
This was the most obvious change from the story and it was on purpose.  I used angels and cherubim to communicate my view that we are holy and inherently good. I don't see our collective mistakes as a sign of evil. I see them as opportunities to learn who we are and who we want to be.  
 
Thank you for reading about this painting! 
 
 
xoxo
Annie