My painting is about how on either side of the earth there is light and dark. Light representing being a good person, and the dark represents being a bad person. but on earth, it’s not just light and dark, good and bad. On earth, you can choose to be either a good person or a bad person, and in Judaism, we strive to be part of the light. I added a person, on earth, balancing on a scale with life on one side, because as Jews we have to balance living life, and striving to move towards the light to be a good person. I have the person depicted as happy because right now he has his life balanced, but sometimes the scale tips the other way, if life is becoming a burden, you can start going towards the dark because its easier than going to the light, but we have to keep our minds set on going to the light and being good people because if not then the scale will start to tip and we will be less connected to Judaism.
I think that I could connect this to my life because when my dad was very sick I didn’t understand what was really going on and how dangerous it was, but if that happened now and I did know what was going on then I could think of this, that I have to think on the bright side and I have to be the optimist that everything would be okay, to pull me through that rough time.
Picture of my painting