Fact Replaces Faith

60 x 60 cm
acrylic & pencil on canvas
 
There was a time, once, when we made up stories to try to explain the things that we didn’t understand. A time when myths and fairy tales were born, legends of situations that were once unknown. How do we logically explain a rainbow when the now understood facts are not known?
With these scientific explanations the faith is challenged. The faith had to be adhered to, to allow the believer to get on with daily life and duties and not to question the faith, the rules and the authority.
What is this made of? How does this work? And what are we doing here after all? Indeed are our efforts of any use? Whether blinded by faith or sighted by the science, answer with the passion to know much more. Do we now constantly search for answers because there is a lack of faith, trying to somehow compensate for some misplaced higher specification that we have made for ourselves?