At COLLIDE, we tend to focus on digital media whenever we use the term “media.” However, I was reminded this weekend that the term encompasses anything that qualifies as “a means by which something is communicated or expressed” according to my dictionary. I admit that I tend to get stuck in thinking that media means video, web design, music, and other common channels, so I was intrigued by this post by Blaine Hogan.
Blaine shares a bit of the story of some current and former Mars Hill Graduate School students who are using a few bedsheets and some paint to convey a powerful message of hope to a hurting community in Seattle (one example is pictured above). Sometimes I forget that we don’t need thousands of dollars in gear and years of training and experience in order to create something meaningful. It seems that creativity, compassion, purpose, and a story worth telling tend to make meaningful art, whether our canvas happens to be a bed sheet, a digital 3-D environment, a Polaroid, or a brick wall marred by gang graffiti.
Whatever canvas you stand in front of today, take a cue from the artists in Seattle and cover that canvas in a message of hope and redemption.
