title. EMPTY TOMB
date. 2024
copyright voiceHOUSE Productions​​
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We possess no faith, no symbolic constructs, no traditions which might help us to confront the unknown. We are rendered completely useless in the face of death. And amidst our futility, in a cultural landscape where God has been destroyed and all claims on ‘meaning’ have been revoked and any possibility for us to believe in a ‘story’ has disintegrated, we have taken the only logical approach: eliminating the notion of death from all aspects of our lives.
Unable to bear the unknown, we have abandoned it altogether.
We have become so dislocated from the realm of mystery that we deny even the possibility of there being a realm of mystery.
In this, our spectral age, where appearances are paramount, where the act of living has been severed from the primacy of being alive- in the forgetting of how to live, we have also forgotten how to die. Death has become a thing impossible for us to navigate, so we have left it behind. Like an atmosphere gradually stripped away by solar winds- for what can death represent to us, those who are no longer alive? It is a system generated error. We click the icon. We ignore the window. We carry on with our supermarket discounts, with our ‘What kind of car do you drive?’ games, with our surprise birthday parties and championship broadcast chicken wings.
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