There is one I have to drive past on Keele Street that is perhaps twenty feet high and situated on the top of a building. It depicts a nearly naked woman in intimate embrace with the earth and a slogan that says something like get in touch with you world . There is another one at the junction of Bay and Bloor Streets which must be at least thirty feet high. It depicts a woman in the process of removing her pants and the slogan makes some comment about being available . To me the shocking thing is not that these images exist, but that people walk by them every day of their lives and take them for granted.
Images spin out of out TV s, out of our computers from the Internet, and out of our magazines.
For our culture, image is more important than reality. Exodus 20 v. 4 in Good News reads Do not make for yourselves images of anything in heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth. The images we make, make us blind. They prevent us from seeing reality. We look at the surface of things instead of looking deep down.