
Theseus
May 19, 2026
In this artwork
An artwork featuring Cooper Baihaqi the sand cat, two versions of him as the present adult and his child past sitting opposite and facing away from each other, the adult slouches with his left arm appeared to be fused with an angelic and mechanical symbiote, spreading its large, broken wing. Feathers scatter in the air, the child looks upwards in bliss, reaching out to them.
When it comes to Cooper, he is the closest self-insertion of myself. For this reason, I have every reason to hate and love him the most. Telling stories that anchor with reality means looking inwards, and most of the time, you have to reopen past wounds.
I try to play around the concept of eternalism, in which the past, present and future all exist at the same time, the concept of identity through the ship of Theseus, and the story of Icarus who flew to close to the sun.