The Brick Testament
The Brick Testament is a project of the US-American same Spurling (* 7. September 1973 as Brendan Powell Smith) for simulating Bible stories using Lego building blocks (Engl. Bricks ).
The images in the project illustrate excerpts from the Old and New Testaments , with the chapter and verse always indicated. The text is based on various public domain editions of the Bible. In some pictures, Smith added speech bubbles with his own utterances to the characters. The stories are provided with codes to identify potentially unsuitable stories for children.
Elbe Spurling, an atheist , read the Bible while studying. She began posting photos of recreated Bible scenes on her personal website in 2001. Within two years the website reached nearly two million visitors. She described her motivation for the project as follows:
- "If there is an unspoken motivation for the website, it is to provide all those who believe in an all-benevolent, compassionate, family-supportive God with the barbaric, hideous and grotesque stories of the divinely inspired book that underlies their religion, to confront. It's also a cool Lego project and all. "
A principle of the project is to present the stories of the Bible as the text reproduces them, without glossing over them. The Brick Testament has been described as childlike, disturbing, cynical, or weird by the press. The images from the project are also used by clergymen in the context of children's theological events.
Parts of the Brick Testament were published as a series of books in several countries, with sex and violence scenes in part being toned down.
literature
- Reinhard Mühlen: The Brick Testament: Design your own children's Bible with a world made of Lego blocks. In Gottfried Adam (Ed.): Illustrations in Children's Bibles : From Luther to the Internet, pp. 359–368. IKS Garamond, Jena 2005, ISBN 3-938203-08-0
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elbe Spurling. In: elbespurling.com. Retrieved March 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Chicago Tribune, December 30, 2003
- ^ SPIN, February 2002
- ↑ Houston Chronicle, December 18, 2004
- ↑ Directory of press articles