Hiding Humanity

Institutions and images challenge and confront one another. Ideologies and opinions come into conflict. But behind the image is a person. The institution is ultimately flesh and blood. The opinion conceals who stands behind it, nor do ideologies live apart from their disciples. Nothing survives as an idea. It must be sustained in the mind and heart of the believer. However, it is far easier, so much safer, to hide humanity in a movement. To be a something attaching a something else is as secure as it is impersonal.