Measuring Your Value
The Porch
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm here at Watermark. I'm excited to be with you tonight. |
| 0:22.0 | We're going to dive in. Who here likes art? Anybody here like art? Some fans of art? I love art. I grew up going to museums with my mom. |
| 0:32.0 | And it's not the thing most kids are playing on playgrounds and we're sitting quiet in a museum. But I learned to love art. |
| 0:38.0 | And one of my favorite artists that is out there today is not the typical ones you'd see in a museum. He's not a DaVinci year or Monet or Rembrandt. His name is Banksy. Anybody familiar with Banksy? |
| 0:49.0 | Some yes, some no. He is a notorious figure in the art culture because he is a street artist. So he's a graffiti artist. He does tagging. He does these huge mural artworks that is more of a social commentary. |
| 1:03.0 | He's kind of poking fun at the urbanization of our environments and the things that happen when you're in an urban culture. |
| 1:10.0 | So here are a couple pieces by Banksy. This is kind of just as you see a kid has to plan a fire hydrant because there's nowhere else to go. That's the fun in games. |
| 1:19.0 | Another one is all of our parks are really parking lots. So he just does these tongue and cheek things. So one thing that he did, he's based in the UK. He's a London based artist. |
| 1:29.0 | He came to the States to New York for 30 days to do an installation every day for 30 days. This was one of them where he just poked fun at the graffiti in New York City and said this is my New York accent but this is normally how I talk. |
| 1:41.0 | And so he just does stuff like this all over the globe. While he was in New York City, this pop-up shop popped up on one of the days full of what looked like Banksy artwork. |
| 1:54.0 | And so if you've ever been in New York City, there are these little shops all over the city that they're selling little trinkets. They're selling souvenirs. They're selling really cheap artwork. Whatever it is, this is on the outside of Central Park. |
| 2:06.0 | And there is this shop with an old man that you saw who was just yawning, boarded tears, selling what seems to be way overpriced artwork compared to all of the other cheap trinkets around it. |
| 2:17.0 | $60 for a spray-painted stencil on a canvas. Would you pay that? Thousands of people walk by this booth in one day. It's sat there for one day, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. thousands of people walk by and see $60. |
| 2:36.0 | So in the span of a whole day, in this yawning old man, two people buy a painting. Two people think that what they see is worth something is valuable is something that they would want to have. |
| 2:49.0 | Because in this city full of cheap trinkets and a park full of gimmicks and tricks and t-shirts and novelties, $60 seemed way too expensive, way too high of a value for what really was undervalued by everybody else. |
| 3:06.0 | Anybody in here feel like that painting or that group of paintings? Wanting to be wanted? Wanting to feel like your worth something, maybe 60, maybe more? Everyone just kind of walks by. |
| 3:21.0 | Nah, maybe a couple glance, maybe a couple once you and you get excited and then it just moves on and there's nothing about you that seems exciting or lovable. |
| 3:31.0 | In a world full of hurt and sin and selfishness, people may look at you, you may even look at yourself and think that you are worthless. |
| 3:45.0 | Because these people would walk around and they'd undervalue artwork. I think we tend to look at things that are in this world and we undervalue a lot. It's easy. |
| 3:53.0 | But I think the things that we undervalue most are ourselves. I think what you undervalue most is you. |
| 4:02.0 | You think that who you are, how you look, the job that you have, the friends that you hang out, you think that all of that is this perfect symphony that says, I'm not good enough, I'm not enough. |
| 4:18.0 | And so we look for value and how much we make, what others think about us, what we do, our peace of mind is determined by our relationship status, but a car that we drive, what our boss thinks about you, what you look in the mirror and think about yourself. |
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