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The Foggy Photo Perfect Timing and Provision Apricot Miracle Our Gracious God Celebrate Healing Don't be anxious Prepare to be amazed Loved - Never forgotten Just around the corner Hide and Seek God Speaks Miracle How will God provide? Guiding a persons thoughts Affluent: Grafted in The Redemptive Pattern I will carry you Valley of Achor Desires of your heart Drive Safely The name above all names Sword of the Spirit Land Of Plenty "Come" Stolen Children You are my witnesses New Life Moshia, Or |
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"Grafted in" "Affluent" 
I decided to make another image showing the waters of Judaism and Christianity
flowing into one larger pool - part of an ocean (The majesty of God filling
everything like a great ocean) with one tap spraying the water out, visually
paraphrasing the bible - no longer two groups, God’s people and foreigners,
but all one in Christ. A multicultural pool created with a profusion of
photos - a multi photo collage. Affluence! But sometimes we are like a rusty
watering can not making the most of our resources.
The Lolly Tree Please Sir Can I have Some More
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While in Berrima for a photo shoot for a multicultural exhibition called
"Affluence", I saw a double headed tap for the first time. I thought it
was a great symbol for affluence. Most taps have one spout for the water
but this one had two! So I took a photo of it. At home I took more photos
of taps and water and grafted them on adding flowing streams in Photoshop.
The taps were great symbols for the Christian church, a new branch grafted
into God’s family, with the water of the Holy Spirit flowing through.
I began to think that this was no longer suitable for the exhibition,
but when I looked up the definition of "affluent" I was surprised how
well my image portrayed it: "flowing freely" and "tributary
stream flowing into a larger one" "profusion" (Garmonsway. G. N.,
1969, The Penguin English Dictionary Revised Edition). 
While in Berrima I also saw a shop full of sweets, a profusion of colour
organized and constrained in lines of jars. Many lollies in one jar.
Many jars on one shelf. Many shelves in one shop. A multitude to satisfy
desires beyond the basic needs. Being affluent means having the wealth
and resources that create a wider range of choices. Having an abundance
of choices and the freedom to choose. It is like a lolly tree with jars
of lollies peeling off like bark. 
While at Lake Bathurst for a photo shoot I saw an old stamp vendor and
gold pan - Empty, discarded, and rusty. The trappings of a past communication
and income generation method have become technological waste products
of our consumer habits. I thought of Dicken’s Oliver, who was hungry because
of the greed of those in more powerful positions and thought that the
things we value can be as temporary as a ribbon blowing in the wind. and
whether hungry or not we still want more, more, more. Today’s treasure
may be tomorrows trash so what should we who are affluent value most?