IT IS MINE! NO, IT IS MINE!
2022
Acrylic on card
50x70cm
Acrylic on card
50x70cm
The work is inspired by an inherently human tendency, that of fighting for what we want.
While this may be only natural especially as regards our survival, such behaviour may degenerate if it becomes purely a feeling of entitledness that goes beyond survival.
This is particularly evident when it comes to appropriating resources, money and power over others, which often are the real drivers of human communities' actions. It has been so since the inception of the human race.
In this work, grotesque creatures - a blend of animal, robot, and human elements - challenge one another in an attempt to obrain the golden heart, which is hanging at the centre of the fight, waiting to be scooped up by the victors. As may be noted, the creatures themseves, as well as being entangled with one another, seem to be intertwined with their surrounding, too. This detail is meaningful as it goes to say that while we fight and practice an 'us-and-them' mentality and think of ourselves as independent entities, we actuyally are all interdependent and a sort of oneness is what underlies our life, nature and all.
Another important detail is the irony of the golden heart. The creatures fight to obtain the very symbol of goodness and, of course, peaceful living. As well as being a conceptual oximoron, this situation echoes a not uncommon human attitude encapsulated in the 'holier-than-thou' mindset. we fight (literally or less so) others in order to affirm to ourself we are better and more deserving than the others.
In this work, grotesque creatures - a blend of animal, robot, and human elements - challenge one another in an attempt to obrain the golden heart, which is hanging at the centre of the fight, waiting to be scooped up by the victors. As may be noted, the creatures themseves, as well as being entangled with one another, seem to be intertwined with their surrounding, too. This detail is meaningful as it goes to say that while we fight and practice an 'us-and-them' mentality and think of ourselves as independent entities, we actuyally are all interdependent and a sort of oneness is what underlies our life, nature and all.
Another important detail is the irony of the golden heart. The creatures fight to obtain the very symbol of goodness and, of course, peaceful living. As well as being a conceptual oximoron, this situation echoes a not uncommon human attitude encapsulated in the 'holier-than-thou' mindset. we fight (literally or less so) others in order to affirm to ourself we are better and more deserving than the others.