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Self-Portrait: A collaboration between Richard Guest and Richard Cooper-Knight.

The sixth in our series of collaborations has, I think, found us with our biggest challenge to date…

Richard Guest: The Last Time I Saw Richard, 2012

Self-portrait

My initial reaction to Richard’s brief was, “oh no!”, because I’ve studiously avoided being identified on The Future etc etc. Then I thought, “be sneaky, don’t show your face.” So I tried lots of avoidance tactics – laying my clothes out on the bed as if I’d just vacated them, altering my features in Photoshop, but neither worked very well because they were cop-outs. So I started messing around with mirrors in an attempt to present a jumbled-up version of my features, thus preserving a bit of unrecognisability. It didn’t really work either, but I quite like this shot.

Having worried about it, I discovered that both Frivolous Monsters and John…

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Unshakable Hope

Until I began reading the Bible at the age of 21, I had no idea of what heaven was truly like. My childish view of heaven had been mostly formed by popular culture; from cartoons, television shows and movies like “Heaven Can Wait.” In my mind heaven was a really boring place where disembodied spirits wandered aimlessly through a mysterious London-like fog. The picture I had built-up in my limited imagination was just slightly better than the first level of Dante’s portrayal of hell; far from the beautiful paradise that I now believe it to be.

When I began reading the Bible’s descriptions of this place called heaven, I was shocked by how different it was from my naive view. I am now convinced that it’s vital to have an accurate view of heaven in order to maintain a genuine (joy and peace-giving) hope for this life…

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