Carrying the baobab cross.
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Photographic technology; Cruse 3D Scanner. Technique: Giclée / Medium: Canvas, Canson Infinity / Editions: 250 / Year of production: 2023 / Signed : Yes / Certificate: Certificate of Authenticity.
The idea of a person’s life path in the context of the biblical maxim: “for each will bear his own cross”, has been reinvented through the prism of mass media culture. The postmodernist appeal in an ironic key to eternal themes and timeless plots. Again, the main character is the on-screen symbol of the era. The picture is based on the iconic scene where this character is with a log on the shoulder, replaced by a cross symbolizing his three life stages – sports, cinematography and political career. The artwork is rumination on the sacred personalities of the era, serving as idols and at the same time conceptual shelters, like dwellings in the trunk of a baobab, erected even today by primitive tribes.
Who are they – idols being saturated or bodhisattvas who out of mercy voluntarily stepped into a new circle of samsara? What is their life path – a monument to the glamor of the possible, a hymn to the exercised right to the claim-demand, or a heavy cross? Who is the Great Man bearing this cross and the Little Man huddling in its shadow?