The Awakening (2020)
'The Awakening' (2020) is another work that depicts struggle
within the mind and body induced by a sense of alienation and despair.
Through talks with peers and tutors about the image of a
steel vessel emerging from a structure and busting open with light, I arrived
at Michelangelo’s ‘Slaves’ series, and the story of Prometheus and the Fire of
Knowledge. Interestingly, Marx sees the story of Prometheus as an act of reform
or rebellion; I see it as a symbol of our internal struggle and the potential emancipation
of our species from an unsustainable structure--the dissemination of fire
equating with initiating an awakening from a long slumber.



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