THE METAPHORICAL
The artwork explores the darker corners of the human mind — the thoughts, anger, resentment and inner voice we all experience but rarely act upon. Across the imagery, a man confronts the person he used to be, ultimately burying that version of himself beneath the weight of everything he has survived. It is a metaphor for destruction, rebirth and the brutal process of leaving your old identity behind. He isn't killing someone else. He's killing the man he was.
THE LITERAL
Or perhaps there is no metaphor at all. The artwork can be viewed through the fractured perspective of a lost and increasingly unhinged man, wandering through the night with something buried — and something far darker still alive inside him. The viewer is never told whether they are witnessing a symbolic breakdown or the aftermath of something real. Maybe he's burying his old self. Maybe he's burying someone else. And that's where the story becomes uncomfortable: you decide what actually happened.
The artwork explores the darker corners of the human mind — the thoughts, anger, resentment and inner voice we all experience but rarely act upon. Across the imagery, a man confronts the person he used to be, ultimately burying that version of himself beneath the weight of everything he has survived. It is a metaphor for destruction, rebirth and the brutal process of leaving your old identity behind. He isn't killing someone else. He's killing the man he was.
THE LITERAL
Or perhaps there is no metaphor at all. The artwork can be viewed through the fractured perspective of a lost and increasingly unhinged man, wandering through the night with something buried — and something far darker still alive inside him. The viewer is never told whether they are witnessing a symbolic breakdown or the aftermath of something real. Maybe he's burying his old self. Maybe he's burying someone else. And that's where the story becomes uncomfortable: you decide what actually happened.
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