I Can Bear Any Pain As Long As It Has Meaning

2024

Acrylic Ink, Spray Paint & Pen on Bent Wood

35” x 6”

“I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”

“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning. That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories. I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. It is not that the meaning cannot be explained.” ― Haruki Murakami

Third of the “Death Trio”, this one is the death of Hope. A metaphor for depression.