Simulacrum

Ephesians 6-Philippians 3

“Not that I (Paul) have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but I press on…forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 3:12-14

Simulacrum is a Latin word used by artists to denote an attempt at a likeness of something that has failed to exactly capture it.  Today art making has become so elusive because we are trying to capture concepts that can barely be conceived by our human minds. 

Such is the Christian quandary; we are trying to live in order to obtain the “upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

Hymn
by Damien Hirst, atheist, but
with a full conceptual understanding of the concept of the human being.
Such a meaningful title for a great work.