Artwork

Love

2016 Competition entry

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Thabo Raliile

Details:
Signed
Pen, pencil on fabriano
88 cm x 41 cm
Description:
Recently I read an article about death and how we are all connected as the human race. It talks of my death from a car accident and how I suddenly appeared in a place where there was nothing but me and the Narrator.

The Narrator confirmed my death, and reassured me that it is “ok” to die, since everybody dies. I later find out that the narrator is God whom I asked if this was the afterlife, and whether there is a hell or heaven, and where was He going to send me?

He told me that I would be reincarnated. asked what the whole point was if I get reborn and all that I did in my past life did not matter. He told me that I already had all the experience and knowledge of my past lives, it was just that I did not remember.

He said my soul is more magnificent, beautiful and gigantic than I can ever imagine. A human mind can only take in a tiny fraction of what the soul really is. He told me that I had been reincarnated many times and this time, I would be born a peasant Chinese girl in 540 AD. When I expressed surprised that He was sending me back in time He told me that time only exists in my universe.

I asked him what the whole point of life was, and He told me it was for me to mature. I asked Him if He meant mankind to mature and He told me that there is nobody else in the universe, it is just me and Him. All of the people on earth are different reincarnations of one.

If this was the case, it meant that every time I victimised somebody, I was doing it to myself and all the times I was kind, I was doing it to myself.

This artwork is a self portrait regarding my soul and some people I might have been. They are connected with red string to symbolise the Chinese red string superstition, which talks about our fate of interaction and relationships in life.

Pencil Pen

Detail
Tags

Thabo Raliile

Details:
Signed
Pen, pencil on fabriano
88 cm x 41 cm

Description:
Recently I read an article about death and how we are all connected as the human race. It talks of my death from a car accident and how I suddenly appeared in a place where there was nothing but me and the Narrator.

The Narrator confirmed my death, and reassured me that it is “ok” to die, since everybody dies. I later find out that the narrator is God whom I asked if this was the afterlife, and whether there is a hell or heaven, and where was He going to send me?

He told me that I would be reincarnated. asked what the whole point was if I get reborn and all that I did in my past life did not matter. He told me that I already had all the experience and knowledge of my past lives, it was just that I did not remember.

He said my soul is more magnificent, beautiful and gigantic than I can ever imagine. A human mind can only take in a tiny fraction of what the soul really is. He told me that I had been reincarnated many times and this time, I would be born a peasant Chinese girl in 540 AD. When I expressed surprised that He was sending me back in time He told me that time only exists in my universe.

I asked him what the whole point of life was, and He told me it was for me to mature. I asked Him if He meant mankind to mature and He told me that there is nobody else in the universe, it is just me and Him. All of the people on earth are different reincarnations of one.

If this was the case, it meant that every time I victimised somebody, I was doing it to myself and all the times I was kind, I was doing it to myself.

This artwork is a self portrait regarding my soul and some people I might have been. They are connected with red string to symbolise the Chinese red string superstition, which talks about our fate of interaction and relationships in life.

Pencil Pen