Eternal LifeThis piece is a self-guided school assignment I finished most recently. I used acrylic and some collage on a wooden board. This was inspired by my grandfather. From the moment I realized that we would all die someday, I was afraid of death. I was afraid not that I would die, but that the people, animals, and whatever I loved would one day die and disappear. So I researched about eternal life. There really was something that had eternal life. Which is a water bear. Projecting the desire for eternal life, I drew a water bear carrying the burden of eternal life in the upper right corner. But when I finished the water bear, I thought about it. Isn’t life beautiful because it ends one day? That’s how I completed the bottom right. An involuted future is hidden by fully bloomed flowers that will someday wither. I decided to draw the left side about my grandfather. On the upper left, I drew my grandfather’s legs. The abstract in the far corner is about my grandfather’s past which I don’t know about. Rather than mourning my grandfather’s imminent death, I thought it would be right to reminisce about my memories with him. The bottom left is a drawing of the living room at my grandfather’s house. Ultimately, we all live in the present. There may be no future or past. Because it always was the ‘present’ then and now. |