Working study for Lindisfarne 2013

Thought I best get cracking with putting some of my ideas actually on paper, so here we go...

laying down a collage.

 
 
Words, tissue paper and an assortment of papers I knew would come in handy sooner or later! The text is from an old Indian tale which I have chosen to draw a parallel  between comparative religions and the Canon Tables from the Gospels.

 

It is said that once upon a time a king gathered a few men who were born blind. They were asked to describe an elephant, but each one was presented with only a certain part of it. To one was presented the head of the elephant, to another the trunk, to another its ears, to another the leg, the body, the tail, tuft of the tail, etc. The one who was presented with the head said: "The elephant is like a pot!" The one who was presented the trunk answered, "The elephant is like a hose." The one who touched only the ears thought that the elephant was a fan, the others said that it was a pillar, a wall, a rope, a brush, etc. Then they quarrelled among themselves, each thinking that he was the only one right and the others were wrong. The obvious truth is that the elephant is a unity of many parts, a unity that they could not grasp in their ignorance.  Pasted from <http://www.comparativereligion.com/>