A cartoon about creating art as a bid for immortality
The cartoon shows an artist working on a painting.
He is saying “While I’m alive I like to think of my work living on when I’m dead, but when I’m dead I probably won’t care one way or the other.”
The cartoon is about the way that people are often motivated in their lives to do things due to the awareness of their own mortality, and the paradox that once they have died they won’t care.
It is interesting to speculate on how much of human activity is motivated by this urge, and what position the human race would be in if we didn’t have the urge.
Cartoon drawn: 2019
Cartoon reference number: art014
This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
