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Praise God and die (the final misunderstanding)
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.The writing at the top is latin and it means: we will be condemned by you and made slaves. The text reads A vobis damnabimur et servi efficiemur.
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.The portrait depicts a man with a large growth on his face called a pleomorphic adenoma which is a painless tumor.
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.The writing in the center is english directly translated to armharic and it translates: AMENDMENT
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. The image on the right depicts a small child with Diffuse lymphangiectasis involving both upper extremities and the right leg.
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.The bottom image is a copy of a woodcut depicting an autopsy in a medical school where the teachers are giving support and guidance to a medical student from the 1300's.
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.The words at the bottom read benedic "BENIC DEO ET MORERE" which is what Job's wife told Job when god cursed him with leprosy and it means : Praise God and die.
In this series of Artworks I have played around with the aesthetics of the macabre.My main concern was to illustrate how absurd reality has been in the past.In the future when we take our own reality out of context, things will also seem absurd, even the everyday normal things. I have tried to show how normal the absurd is , when I started this project I was struck by the absurdity of all the images depicted but being subjected to them for a long period of time they have become my norm .So one could say that I have been conditioned and desensitized.
