Tim Høiland

When the lady from News 8 was recently interviewing a few of us artists at a gallery here in Lancaster for a news story on an auction to benefit disabled Chinese orphans, she asked me why I chose to become involved. I told her I got involved because I did nothing to deserve the life I have, being able to afford a camera and being able to take pictures that people might bid on and all. I said that the kids in the picture I donated did nothing to deserve their living hell, which means living in a garbage dump in Cambodia, picking through piles of trash for scraps of plastic that can be sold for pennies a day. And I said that disabled orphans in China did nothing to deserve the physical and emotional hardships they face every day, and that being a Christian, it was the least I could do to donate a picture. I didn’t say that to brag or to sound ultra-spiritual. I said that because I think I believe it to be true. I hope I truly believe it.

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