I’m excited. The idea I’ve been holding onto for a couple of months now has come to fruition and is awesome. There’s something so satisfying about having an idea, thinking of how best to make it happen, consider what’s needed, what might go wrong, what logistically needs to happen, and then go to it! A few months ago I was looking around online for inspiration for OM Chile’s art ministry, which I was taking over this training year, and I came across the idea to do lenticulars on fences. Lenticu-whats? Basically putting a painting or photograph on the sides of a fence so that when you’re walking past you see the picture at the perfect angle.

A few weeks ago in one of the art classes I asked the Intensive Training group to brainstorm ideas for paintings we could do for the fence. They came up with wonderful ideas. The hope is that we can regularly change the painting so that it becomes a continuing ministry in the neighborhood; that people will come to know our property as the place that always does these paintings; that it would spread God’s message and give us opportunities to speak to people.

We began with a simple idea in order to test out the process and so we made a painting with “Jesus loves you” in many different languages and colors. Since we have at least seven different languages spoken by the people who work in OM Chile, it was easy to fill the painting. The IT did a wonderful job creating the painting. Since this week they’ve gone to live within Chilean families for a cultural immersion, today I and two others actually did the gluing of the strips onto the fence. For future paintings the IT will be even more involved in the entire process, but it was so exciting to see the painting coming clear with each strip we put up. We weren’t even done yet when our next-door neighbor stopped to look at it and compliment the idea, leading into a conversation about who we are, our organization, and what we do. Woohoo! I’ve been pretty pumped all day since we got it up on the fence. I’ll show you some photos as well so you can actually picture what I’ve been chattering on about. Enjoy and God bless!

 

the IT painting

Full painting before cutting it into strips

 

getting started

 

last strips

From straight on, nothing

Start to see it

 

More and more

 

 

Final Image