Metaphor Concept Sketches

One of my ideas was to do a sort of "Heaven & Earth" piece based on me being (or having become) a Christian. This was inspired by a photo we at lecture once of life and death/destruction where there were white feathers hanging horizontally from the ceiling and then, I think, tangles and tangles of branches on the floor right beneath them. It was a really great contrast and I kind of wanted to do that with white and black feathers to represent me having chosen heaven instead of this earth (because the bible talks a lot about choosing the world or the Kingdom of God). Well I thought the feather idea was cutting it a little too close to that other artist's idea so I thought then to use jewels to represent heaven and earth. I planned on scattering blue and green jewels (to represent the earth) on the ground and then have a poster board hanging over them with constellations painted on it and having a really large and shiny diamond (heaven) right at the center. I wasn't sure though how I was going to express the act of choosing between them, maybe handprints?

By the way, that mustache looking thing on the top left is supposed to be lots of white feathers at the top and black (or green and blue) feathers at the bottom, my original idea.

Heaven vs. Earth

Another idea I had was to illustrate how I felt when I was in preschool and I didn't know english. I was going to put a figurine of a litte girl trapped inside a birdcage watching monkeys (figurines) outside of the birdcage laugh and play. The monkeys are supposed to be the other students, and they are going to represent monkeys because they might as well have been, I didn't understand anything they were saying.

Lost in Translation

The third idea I had was based on how Christians are supposed to be the "light of the world," so I was going to put a candle inside a hollowed box and each side of the box was going to have a picture of very worldly/influential/addictive things on it like a TV, cell phone, computer, and a magazine (probably Vogue). Maybe they should be painted blue and green....

Light of the World