Rise Above My Fears

It took me a while to get this juggling image by urban artist ABOVE, who wrote:

it might sound weird to most people but similar to a burglar
waiting and observing a spot for a future hit,
i had been searching the streets for over 9-months for this type of wire setup.
kinda strange how such a simple wire can bring so much excitement to a person.
this "hit" had the foundation laid and with the correct timing
i climbed up a ladder repeatedly a total of 11-times
each with a new layer to make this piece complete.

He found that wire setup in Madrid, Spain: http://goabove.com/CUT_IT_OUT.html - Thanks ABOVE!

I enjoy Street Art - i find most of it to be thought provoking, inspirational & at times, very cheeky :)

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That whole kinetic reference: "rise above". It's metaphorical of course, where is the spatial locale of fear exactly or of one (self) doing the rising?

Of course this kind of allegory slips into our descriptions unwittingly. It seems when one says "God above" the assumptions is that God inhabits a spatial locale "up there" somewhere, but when we talk about rising above fear that metaphor has no problem being interpreted as a metaphor, I mean its automatic for us to do so.

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I've had long discussions with proponents of street art, and I still can't understand how it's anything other than vandalism. Maybe it looks neat (this one does) or is thought-provoking (this one isn't), but I think most of us would be pretty upset if someone painted a mural on our home. Maybe I'm just terminally unhip.