So living is a thing...

Here’s a Chinese painting of the Baptism of Christ:

Here is a Native American painting of the Nativity:

Here’s a painting of Jesus giving a sermon by a Kenyan artist:

And, lastly, here’s a European painting of Jesus healing the blind:

For example, Saint Maurice:

Not a particularly unusual depiction. If you go looking, even the ones in which he is European (usually the earlier examples)  have him in contemporary mediaeval armour.

The problem is that he was executed by the Romans in 286CE. 

No one knows what he would have looked like.

He’s also often depicted as sub-Saharan African, despite being from  Egypt. Although he was from a region associated with Nubians, he’d still be from the wrong side of the continent. They were trying though.

Fuckwits, like that one that specialises in “mediaeval people of colour”, will try and use renaissance depictions to claim things about someone’s actual appearance. And other fuckwits will believe them. Another breed of fuckwit will see depictions of St Maurice in mediaeval armour with the crest of the Holy Roman Empire, of which he was the patron saint, and claim that people are lying and it’s actually a depiction of an African knight….

“ ….churches are full of Asian Jesus’. “

Hi, I totally forgot to post about this here! The People’s Print Shop produced a really nice limited-edition print of ‘Darker Rooms’, all signed and numbered by my own right hand, and there’s maybe 7 or 8 of them still left—if you’re interested in snagging one before they’re gone, they can be found right here!

These dogs are herding ducks through obstacles by the use of whistle commands