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The Mystery of Drawing Faces... and Drawing out God

The Mystery of Drawing Faces... and Drawing out God

Each face is a mask that we should “under-stand.”

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As a child, I loved drawing. But the last time I drew was probably in my mid-20s. Since then I switched to other forms of art — music and writing. However, I distinctly remember the wonderful experience of drawing faces.

Drawing a face felt different than drawing anything else. It doesn’t really matter if you add a superfluous line to a tree — the tree …

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