pastels and ink, inspired by a text from Aleksandra M, Poland
for the project details, visit
http://mailartinternationale.blogspot.be/2013/12/continue-story-of-sailor-with-wooden.html
Text contribution:
Let us
explore the possibilities or reasons why you have a wooden heart, said the fish
to the lost sailor.
It is the
result of an experiment
by the military industry :
you are now an immortal soldier, you cannot be killed when they shoot you in
the heart
by the social security administration
of the government : no more heart diseases means an important cost reduction for their budget
by the carpenter Geppetto who
made Pinocchio, because of nostalgia of past times, when the puppet became a real
boy he became also an obnoxious teenager to the despair of his father and
creator
by a writer who followed
one of these stupid courses in creative writing, they invent crazy stuff all
the time because they want to be sooo original
by a Buddhist cult because
they oppose all kind of emotions and think that loosing them is a way to
salvation and the nirvana, the non existing state of life, so the wooden heart
is a key to stop the eternal return of life equals pain and sorrow, a way to
end the hell of samsara
by the fish industry, the
lack of emotions means no possible empathy, so you have no trouble killing and
fishing the ocean dry, maybe your heart is made in Japan or by one of these other
countries who kill wales and tuna and don’t give a damnn about quota or
regulations
by …
Okay, okay,
but what about wood rot, I am not immune to that disease and it would kill me
for sure.
Maybe, but
that is not sure. First you need to learn how to live with a wooden heart and
then the next step is to live without any heart at all. Come to think of that :
lots of people live already without a heart. How else can you explain wars and
genocides or torture?
Guido
Vermeulen
December
2013
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