Change is the most terrifying fact of life. It is all-consuming, ever-lasting, certain yet still unforeseeable, it is relentless and exhausting.
In this project I attempted to conquer Change. I tried to teach myself to enjoy Change, to look forward to it, to become one with it. I found order and logic in it, I saw beauty in it, I began to understand parts of it, I asked the Ancient Greeks what they thought of it, and my Jewish mystic ancestors. I searched for a God to hold my hand through it. But it turns out that that God is as fickle and intermittent as Change itself.
I didn’t conquer Change. It was an unwinnable battle. I dread the thought that it will always be that way.
The drawings that make up I am Becoming One with Change are like the equations behind an impossible science experiment. In them I tried to untangle seeds of hope from existential fear, imagining a life where change was what I wanted it to be, where I was truly one with it.
In this project I attempted to conquer Change. I tried to teach myself to enjoy Change, to look forward to it, to become one with it. I found order and logic in it, I saw beauty in it, I began to understand parts of it, I asked the Ancient Greeks what they thought of it, and my Jewish mystic ancestors. I searched for a God to hold my hand through it. But it turns out that that God is as fickle and intermittent as Change itself.
I didn’t conquer Change. It was an unwinnable battle. I dread the thought that it will always be that way.
The drawings that make up I am Becoming One with Change are like the equations behind an impossible science experiment. In them I tried to untangle seeds of hope from existential fear, imagining a life where change was what I wanted it to be, where I was truly one with it.