Last time I realized that I am not the only one who was trifling with death.
James Ensor portrayed himself as a 100-year-old at the age of 28. A famous Belgian painter was born in 1860. A copper etching called “My Portrait in 1960” shows a skeleton with single hair lying in boots leaning against a pillow. Undoubtedly, Ensor presented himself in a horror-grotesquely manner. It seems to me that the Belgian painter, in a symbolic way, wanted to outsmart death by playing with it. Indeed, Ensor was trifling with death by presenting himself as a hundred years old skeleton.
The fact is that I also wanted to do it, and I did it. I wrote about trifling with death in the work named “Death, part IV.”
My artistic activity is connected with not only trifling with death but also simultaneously with time. Why? Because I have no doubt that all my photographs, texts, and works will last much longer than I. Since the very beginning of managing the www.adammazek.com website, I had both manuscripts and pictures made in advance, waiting to be published. My aim is to schedule as many posts (posts are consisting of photos and texts). The best it would be if I add many planned years ahead. It can be such a situation that I am already dead, but my posts will still be publishing, after my death. That will be my voice from the afterlife.
Do I manage to accomplish this task?
I do not know. I have no idea what the future hold. Without a doubt, James Ensor also did not know if he manages to become a centenarian. Still, he draws himself as a hundred years old skeleton. Did he manage to live one hundred years? No. He died in 1949, being 89 years old.
