[Gaven’s View of] Life

Artist: Gaven

In response to Kathryn’s depiction of life, I drew the above pastel drawing.

In the picture, heads kept in jars are being manufactured by goblins and placed on a conveyor belt. As the heads travel down the conveyor belt, they amuse themselves by watching a giant blue TV. It is important to note that the instruments which will kill the heads are visible to them, but the heads choose not to focus on them, and instead pay attention only to the TV.

Now for how this relates to my view of life:

The fabrication process is simply my colourful way of representing birth, and the conveyor belt is my representation of life. The TV is just a general representation of the distractions we fill our lives with. It could be material things such as cars or houses, or emotional things such as love or children, but I argue that these are all distractions we try to fill life with from our birth to our death.

I strongly believe that most of us usually live this way (filling our lives with distractions), and I believe I am very guilty of this, but I wish that we spent more time ignoring the TV, and spent more time examining the conveyor belt, or trying to befriend one of the Goblins. After all, the TV only brings happiness, which in my opinion is hardly enough to fulfill anyone’s life.

[Kathryn’s view of] Life

Artist: Kathryn

This is another one of Kathryn’s first pastel drawings. In it, she has expressed her view of life where we all live under concrete slabs which will one day fall and kill us. It is important to note that the ropes have been attached in such a way that death cannot determine which rope leads to which person. Thus, death spends his time cutting the ropes and ending people’s lives with disregard to whom he is killing. Even Kathryn herself, the girl with the rainbow behind her, is in no different of a position than everyone else.