tragically, rescuing his family from the wreckage of a destroyed sinking battleship, 2009

The project turned a gallery into a cemetery, a ridiculously grandiose grave for the artist. The basis for this piece stemmed from anthropologist Ernest Becker’s Denial of Death, rooted in the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard, on how the fear of death has over the timespan of humanity evolved into an unconscious drive for human activity, geared towards coping with death, by having said activity immortalize us. Applying this framework to the act of art-making, the piece that was supposed to be an existential buffer has now donned the ironic role of an existential reminder, thus rendering said piece futile as a strategy to achieve subconscious appeasement from death anxiety.

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