Piece #4

I did this painting yesterday and I rushed it near the end. It used to say "Jesus or die". Today I went back and fixed up some mistakes and made it look cleaner. As I was painting a guy in a truck drove by and shouted "Jesus Sucks". Why would someone say that? I looked up and saw "JESUS OR DIE" staring me in the face. What a horrible message! That's why the guy thought Jesus sucked because, people like me tell them that Jesus hates them. That's not what the world needs to hear. I sat down and looked through my bible and this verse jumped out.

"God did not send his Son into the world to condemn its people. He sent him to save them" John 3:17

It's getting clearer

I woke up this morning and I felt that I should pray "that I would be open to recieve the message that God has for me today". I was sitting in church and it just came to me. Annother message from God to share with the world (I think). I drew a little doodle to the left it says:

who's your master (mastercard symbol) "you cannot serve God and money" Mat 6:24. "The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil" (visacard symbol) 1 tim 6:10.

That kinda ties into annother picture I drew four months ago. A guy holding on to money with a chain attached to it.

Everything I thought I wanted

I'm a few months into this graffiti thing and I've done some walls I'm talkin to a couple of writers about doing some painting with them, I've got a few good looking walls on the horizon and alot of graff supplies waiting for me when I get back home. But what does it amount to? nothing really. I don't want a part of the meaninglessness. I'm tired of sketching, I'm tired of getting better, I'm tired of wanting respect from anyone, I'm tired of caring what my work looks like. They're all just distractions and I feel like I could write my name 1000 times and I just wouldn't care. Why wouldn't I care? because it's been done and no one cares. Graffiti is such a huge culture there are so many writers with such tallent all saying the same thing "look at me". I feel like I'm competing against all of them because I hate vandalism and I fight for some of the things they fight against. I want to be revolutionary. I want annother message from God to share with the world - and that's all I want.

Sketches 9

MARK

DEVOTION

BATL

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Sketches 8

Mikey

BATL

threat

Devotion

Sketches 7

Patty

Jesus

BATL

Sketches 6

an idea i had pink/purple for the left side and blue/black for the right

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a design for a childs room

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Jesus Sketches