Nothing can be more concrete to a person than one’s own felt thought, one’s own thought feeling. Surrealism is a style of art in which the reality of the dream, or the subconscious mind is seen as more real than the surface reality of everyday life. It is a higher reality. Sometimes these photographs look like hand painted dream photographs. In reality, it one has enough time to truly pay attention, it may seem that people move into our environment and that they are removed from time and mind. Maybe it has to do with our emotions and feelings and they are affecting the environment. Many of us have a desire to satisfy our esthetic sense, which is to see an experience beauty. However, the idea of daring to represent God has, throughout the history of the Western World, aroused controversy. Some say the image of God is his word, but all words have form and an author. I want God to have an Earthen image of visible. Some do not want to represent God, a spiritual unknown, as a person because so many faiths and religions might be offended. I think everyone has an idea of what God looks like to them, but maybe some have never even thought about it?

In the early nineteenth century, William Blake created an image of God and named the portrait The Ancient Days. However, the work of art was considered by some to be an outrageous violation of propriety. Not only had William Blake named his God “Urizen,” creating his own personal mythology, in the place of Christianity, but the God was nude. It is nice to see that I am not so unique. I also selected my own image of God and he also has a name. However, some considered William Blake’s image a little too human. Nonetheless, in the Bible, God got upset with Adam and Eve for discovering that they were naked, so it would makes sense that God would be nude. Also, if we are created in the image of God, he must look human. Still, many considered William Blake’s attributes to God a quandary that is really his own. God is depicted, in this work of art, as the powerful father of all of us, and he is a father who is less merciful than cruel. Well, I also see God as kind of mean, and spoiled, but I think he has a really nice side, but I do not think we are supposed to get on his nerves, I think he wants it to be known that he is running things. No one has to accept my personal reality, I am simply expressing myself, nor do I suggest you take it so far as to find God in human form. To me, God seems ambiguous, I do not know much about him, but I really like him. I know that some do not understand me and wonder why I do not give myself more credit, but I cannot really get into that. However, I can say that is some situations, I need God to impose order upon chaos. Others have attempted to paint God. 400 years before William Blake’s image of God, Jan van Eyck created a depiction of God, and he was much frailer, younger, and apparently more merciful and kind, and certainly more richly adored. However, is that not what you would expect of a young father, before he has acclimated to his creations? There are just my interpretations, and it is more beneficial to me to image that God is in human form than focusing on the struggle.