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A statue of an angel protecting a child stands over the sign of the craft studio where I made the preceding image. Using a wideangle lens, I moved my vantage point until the finger of the angel touched the wire overhead. I create an incongruous metaphor for the role of religious faith in a technologically oriented world. I converted the image to black and white to make the storm cloud overhead seem more threatening. The strong diagonal thrusts of the wires and the adjacent structure energize the image. The wires may carry electricity, telephone or Internet messages, yet they are symbolically monitored and perhaps even protected here by an icon of a faith that is 2,000 years old.
Image Copyright © held by Phil Douglis, The Douglis Visual Workshops