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On My Shoulder
61 drawings in zig-zag folds, 25 × 19 cm (each), 25 × 1159 cm (total), 2021

On My Shoulder is a work connecting an array of pencil drawings that has three types of content, reaching approximately 11 m in length. The first story depicts a walking person carrying another person or animal. It represents the yoke of Karma that is inescapable, such as the various duties and responsibilities one has tobear with birth, and good and evil deeds we perform in life. The second story shows the stages of development from the discovery of atoms and atomic nuclei to atomic bombs and nuclear weapons. Humanity has witnessed many occasions of scientific truth turning into evil, destroying each other. The artist points out the irony in which the discovery of the truth that led mankind to become the rulers of this world is also the beginning of self-destruction. In the third story, Nicolas Thomas Bernhard's The Cap unfolds. The protagonist, who usually suffers from severe headaches and mental illness, accidentally finds a cap on the road. He puts the hat on his head and is unable to remove the hat from his body, although he is obsessed with the thought that he has to return it to the owner. The main character is like each of us who walks and carries too much weight of existence and is unable to unleash the string of hope. In On My Shoulder, the accordion form, in which three stories are connected, seems to symbolize vicissitudes of life. The work resembles the multifaceted nature of ourselves who carry both good and evil, conscience and desires on our backs.




On the shoulder pencil drawing detail
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