Quick Background:
My concentration is my thoughts on the Christian religion, me being a Christian myself. There are many things I don't like about my religion and the pressures it puts on it's members. I believe there is a difference between having a religion, and having a relationship with God. Being religious causes many burdens and expectations for a "believer." A relationship is about grace, forgiveness, and growth.
More in-Depth Background:
My first three pieces are about the good and simple feelings of being a Christian. My fourth and fifth pieces are made as a question: is God really good no matter what?, and are church families really as sinless and perfect as they seem? The sixth, eighth, and eleventh pieces I started to use thread to express the concept of God or the idea of God in physical form-- used to fix and sew things back together. The seventh piece goes into the pressure put on children by Christian/religious parents, the pressure to also serve and love God because of their parents' beliefs (usually causing the opposite of feeling God's love). The ninth piece I made to try to represent how Christians-- and many other people-- take people they look up to (in this case preachers) as never being able to be wrong. Taking whatever they say to be gospel. The tenth and twelfth pieces represent how it feels for me to be a Christian-- expected to be perfect, fixed, happy, and God-loving. This isn't how I feel a lot of the time, causing me to reconsider what a Christian should really look like inside and out.