Tanja Bürgelin-Arslan

Sculptures. Mammon

Who would not like to have an abundant supply of money?
Money itself is value-neutral. It is a simple means of exchange. It becomes either good or bad by the way we use it and the purpose it is employed for. Money is power. 
Mammon is the Aramaic word for “wealth, possessions” and describes the negative power behind money and riches – a power that makes us depend on our possessions, tricks us into believing in its security and keeps kindling new desires.
Mammon, being the “god of money”, competes with the living God.

Mathew 6:24:
 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon“
Which god do you serve?
“If you own something you cannot give away, you don’t own it – it owns you! “ (Jim Elliot)

MAMMON
Prayer bench to kneel down
2016

Materials: Coins, LED
Dimensions: 40 x 40 x 70 cm

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