I always wanted to get a caricature done to myself because I'm always think like what do people see

When they look at me, you know, it's one of those things like to have big ears big nose

I I realized it's I have a relatively large

outsized mouth. I think is maybe one one way to say it

Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is a essential presence

If you're going to the fair or we have a amusement park here in Minnesota that people sometimes go to and at these places

They have people who draw caricatures, but here's the thing about the caricature

It's not meant to be a portrait meaning it's not real life. It's not supposed to be a photograph

It is you take one aspect of the person's features and you kind of accent it right and so you have the big ears

You have the big forehead, the big mouth big whatever the thing is or small ears small mouth

whatever the thing is it takes one aspect and

emphasizes it to the kind of the detriment maybe of the whole at the same time the person is recognizable

That's a very important part of caricatures is on one hand you have one part is distorted on the other hand

They have to be recognizable and so someone had asked a while back

They said what did Jesus look like and I thought man

That's really a question because they were pointing to the fact that there's art throughout the course of the last two thousand years

Depicting Jesus everything from like early early icons that are you know meant to be represented

You know it's interesting we look at pictures right we look at photographs. You're supposed to look through icons

That's that's why they are not meant to be realistic. There meant to be images icons right of a greater reality

So in some ways an icon is kind of a caricature, but it's intentional and it's meant to highlight a deeper reality

So back to our story one of the things they pointed out and people point out all the time is that our art our pictures of Jesus the

Pictures that we have of Jesus they're not accurate because well, like we don't know what Jesus looked like be because they're always conditioned by

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