Do it like me
BA Art Warm-Up – Foundation Course
2023
semester
All this is an amusing inner conflict of
someone who has chosen his own evil.
The most creative part of this disastrous
process, in which many do not win, is when
they invent thousand ways to distract theirself
or trick their brain; like eating carrots, since
with their elongated shape we can hold them
up like a cigarette so as to fake our habits.
“do it like me” is the ironic
version of this advice.
The materials are metal, very cold, heavy
and strong, used for the hand, as the man
chooses to smoke but not to be addicted to it.
The cigarette carved in a carrot, a perishable,
soft and fickle element represents something
that has no power but subdues man