billy black
political footballs
pathways and perspectives

![]() Pathways and Perspectives | ![]() Pathways and Perspectives |
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![]() Pathways and Perspectives | ![]() The Sun and the Moon. They mean the World to Us. |
![]() Sacred animals, spirit animals. | ![]() Abraham's kids, who have been known to squabble in the back of the car on long journeys. |
![]() Love. Humanism. Ubuntu. | ![]() Definitely Shamanic business every time |
![]() Our blissful connection to this earth and the rest of its beings. | ![]() Symbolism of the Unexplainable Forces |
![]() The gods and angels | ![]() Where do we come from and where are we going |
![]() The Wheels, annual and eternal | ![]() The Tao and The Wyrd |
Even if just because of the beautiful buildings in its honour… religion is quite fascinating to me. There’s something appealing about a shared delving into understanding the mysteries of the world. Or is that science? It’s bonkers isn’t it that we are born into this place with all its history and all these people, and gorgeous creatures and magical plantlife… and then there’s space, and dreams, and relationships, and really bad shit happens, and things make us laugh, and how could we begin to ever understand it all, in just a few short decades, and that’s if we are lucky. But we have ceremonies, and draw comfort, and trust and help each other, and sometimes even start revolutions with the lubricant of shared belief.
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I wanted to show knitted glimpses of some of these faiths onto a ball where each is equally valued… simply a different perspective, a different pathway… each having led to myriad acts of kindness. What we call ‘religion’, ‘spirituality’, ‘belief’, ‘faith’ are great - right up until the point where we start applying them to other people’s journeys. Then it’s politics, innit.