Behind The Artworks: The Promise Of Plague - The Earth Above A Grave Beneath (2025)

The image depicts a figure suspended between worlds, blending funerary iconography with a sense of ontological decay. “The Earth Above, A Grave Beneath” situates between opposing existential planes. Life and death, memory and erasure, embody someone who is physically alive yet internally dead. Being materially bound to the earth but still reaching for something symbolic and aspirational. The cruciform posture evokes sacrifice and martyrdom, holding yourself in a liminal state where you are neither fully living nor fully erased. You appear as a cultural memory eroding in real time; a body slipping back into the forgotten geological record. Ultimately, the image becomes a confrontation with the limits of embodiment itself: a figure caught at the intersection of myth, nature, and mortality, where transcendence falters and the earth serves as both womb and tomb. You become a witness to your own slow demise.