Suara AlaM's
Whispers of God
Sound Artist
When Life Ends - part 4
When Life Ends - part 4
"If you understand what death is, only then are you able to understand what life is. They are organic.
Ordinarily, out of fear, we have created a division. We think that life is good and death is bad.
We think that life has to be desired and death is to be avoided. We think somehow we have to protect ourselves against death.
This absurd idea creates endless miseries in our lives, because a person who protects himself against death becomes incapable of living.
He is the person who is afraid of exhaling, then he cannot inhale and he is stuck.
Then he simply drags; his life is no longer a flow, his life is no longer a river.
If you really want to live you have to be ready to die.
Who is afraid of death in you? Is life afraid of death? It is not possible.
How can life be afraid of its own integral process? Something else is afraid in you.
The ego is afraid in you. Life and death are not opposites; ego and death are opposites. Life and death are not opposites; ego and life are opposites.
Ego is against both life and death. The ego is afraid to live and the ego is afraid to die. It is afraid to live because each effort, each step towards life, brings death closer. If you live you are coming closer to dying.
The ego is afraid to die, hence it is afraid to live also.
The ego simply drags.
There are many people who are neither alive nor dead. This is worse than anything. A man who is fully alive is full of death also. That is the meaning of Jesus on the cross. Jesus carrying his own cross has not really been understood. And he says to his disciples, 'You will have to carry your own cross.' The meaning of Jesus carrying his own cross is very simple, nothing but this: everybody has to carry his death continuously, everybody has to die each moment, everybody has to be on the cross because that is the only way to live fully, totally. Whenever you come to a total moment of aliveness, suddenly you will see death there also.”
- OSHO -
Part four shows the now disrobed soul that is ready to enter its new phase. The pieces of the body have become ashes left on a marble slab for those left behind to scatter. The marble has gold in it, which is a reference to the Kintsugi technique used in the next part, where it also shows that after death the things from the past don’t matter anymore. From the afterglow ashes the smoke rises with the soul upwards.
Dimensions
40 cm x 30 cm x 32,5 cm
Technique and used material
Acrylics on canvas; burned ashes