God’s Eye View: Scenes from the Bible As Seen from Heaven



In a series titled God’s Eye View, artist collective The Glue Society created a series of scenes out of The Bible, as they would’ve been seen from Heaven:

Scenes from the Bible have been imagined by countless artists over the centuries, but never quite like this. God’s Eye View portrays four key Biblical events as if captured by Google Earth.

God’s Eye View depicts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Noah’s Ark, and Moses parting the Red Sea as well as The Crucifixion. “We like to disorientate audiences a little with all our work. And with this piece we felt technology now allows events which may or may not have happened to be visualized and made to appear dramatically real,” say The Glue Society’s James Dive. “As a method of representation satellite photography is so trusted, it has been interesting to mess with that trust.”

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Posted on January 18, 2008 at 11:29 am by Alex
Category: Art & Craft, Pictures, Religion



12 comments to "God’s Eye View: Scenes from the Bible As Seen from Heaven"

  • Noelegy
    January 18th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

    “We like to disorientate audiences a little with all our work.”

    At first this quote tweaked my sensibilities because I thought “disorientate” was not a legitimate word, but then I found this definition on dictionary.com:

    \Dis*o”ri*en*tate\, v. t. To turn away from the east, or (figuratively) from the right or the truth. [R.]

    “To turn away…from the truth.” Interesting.

  • Skipweasel
    January 18th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    I didn’t realise God was up there. I was always taught he was all around us.

    Actually, I’m a non-believer these days.

  • James
    January 18th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    Doesn’t God have a couch and HDTV up there? Or does he have 360-degree vision?

  • Tim
    January 18th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    200+ kilometer shadows?

  • Gz
    January 18th, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    Fucking stupid Christians.

    Heaven is not UP there. Your Alien planet may be! Get off my planet you Christians! Bunch of fucking Alien freaks that had no place to call home so you poisoned our people on this innocent planet and fucked it all up. Damned Vampires. Why the fuck would a person want to drink the blood and eat the body of Christ the Alien every fucking Sunday? Nothing but a Vampire would ask that.

    Get off my planet. Now.

  • Britt
    January 19th, 2008 at 4:49 am

    Thanks, GZ, for the insight. Because all Christian churches do that, amirite?

    *headdesk*

    Otherwise, this is way nifty.

  • mark
    January 19th, 2008 at 11:45 am

    Gz. Ok…

    Anyways, this is neat. pun?

  • biltmore
    January 19th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    @ Gz,

    LMFAO!!!!!

  • Abdul Alhazred
    January 19th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    No no no you doubters. God is about 100 feet up. Just look at the pictures.

    What’s the matter with all you atheists who hate God? :)

  • biltmore
    January 19th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    Who said we were athiest? You know, there are other religions out there other than Christianity. Religions that have been around longer, and have millions and millions of followers too.

  • Abdul Alhazred
    January 19th, 2008 at 10:57 pm

    I guess I was not clear.

    I’m an atheist, and I was playing you religious types.

    :p

  • Kristin
    January 26th, 2008 at 10:32 am

    Who’s to say that Heaven is “up”? It could be around us in another dimension.

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