“Padre Nuestro (Brown Jesus)”
"Padre Nuestro (Brown Jesus)"
16x20 oil on canvas.
Our Father, It separates and gives possession, Our Father....
What does your Dad look like?
Do we leave the generic stock photos in the frames we buy to represent our family? Different skin, different races, shapes and sizes. As a kid it did not make sense to me, reading that I was created in God's image, he must have brown skin to match my own, naturally,
Our Father, My Dad, my likeness.
To Warner Sallman this may have been his image of the Divine, who painted a white Jesus to match his own skin color, just like I have done. Both are historically inaccurate. However, both are accurate in the sense that We are created in the likeness of the Divine and so too would Christ, the Son of God be as well.
The likeness of my Christ was born in Albuquerque, grew up in Cañones, a New Mexican.
"Andres was himself heavily brought up in a religious background and since growing up has seen the value of recognizing that Jesus was a person of color.
Understanding Jesus as brown helps us see his message all the more clearly. We can view him as the refugee, the marginalized, a man who spoke multiple languages, and someone who continuously crossed borders both literally and socio-economically." Andres Salazar
Christ was persecuted, silenced and eventually killed for His Truth. There are a few more historical figures that have the same story... Agnostic, Atheist or Religious we have to see the value in each other but first it starts with us.
"Padre Nuestro (Brown Jesus)"
16x20 oil on canvas.
Our Father, It separates and gives possession, Our Father....
What does your Dad look like?
Do we leave the generic stock photos in the frames we buy to represent our family? Different skin, different races, shapes and sizes. As a kid it did not make sense to me, reading that I was created in God's image, he must have brown skin to match my own, naturally,
Our Father, My Dad, my likeness.
To Warner Sallman this may have been his image of the Divine, who painted a white Jesus to match his own skin color, just like I have done. Both are historically inaccurate. However, both are accurate in the sense that We are created in the likeness of the Divine and so too would Christ, the Son of God be as well.
The likeness of my Christ was born in Albuquerque, grew up in Cañones, a New Mexican.
"Andres was himself heavily brought up in a religious background and since growing up has seen the value of recognizing that Jesus was a person of color.
Understanding Jesus as brown helps us see his message all the more clearly. We can view him as the refugee, the marginalized, a man who spoke multiple languages, and someone who continuously crossed borders both literally and socio-economically." Andres Salazar
Christ was persecuted, silenced and eventually killed for His Truth. There are a few more historical figures that have the same story... Agnostic, Atheist or Religious we have to see the value in each other but first it starts with us.