The Faith of A, a god unto oneself
(an experimental art piece)
 

This piece was designed to communicate what atheism is as worldview and to comment on some of its logical implications. 

'A' is the greek prefix meaning without. When paired with the greek word for god, translated 'theos', we get a-theos; without-god. This is the root of our English word atheism. Atheism is a worldview without an eternal transcendent being, and is therefore a worldview without a transcendent and objective measure for truth, morality, and purpose. Nothing can ultimately be right or wrong, nothing is ultimately good or evil, and no endeavor can logically be argued to be purposeful.

King Solomon spoke of this atheistic life as being vain or meaningless. Of course, Solomon only says this in context to a life lived “under the sun”, his description of a life without God. The image of a sun-like symbol, an image that carries a connotation of deity, is deliberately used as a rejection of the notion that one can be without a god. A removal of supernatural deity is always followed by self-deification. Thus the piece becomes a symbol of atheism. The god called 'A' or 'without' is realized as a void, and filled by the atheist. What results is a faith in oneself, a culture of moral relativism, and an intolerance for exclusive truth. This relativism is rejected as an illusion. The 'A'  is convincingly blurred to grays at a distance, but can be properly discerned as black and white elements upon closer inspection.
 

(The letter alpha chosen is an early variant of the letter used before the standardization of the Greek alphabet and during the time of the first records indicating atheistic thought in Greece.)