Words are Unreliable

Project:  Words are unreliable

“You make me feel so safe, Jessica.”

Date: 21-28 October 2011

Tutor: Silke Dettmers

The Death of Jessica

By Dongdong, 28 October 2011

Who is Jessica?  In my work, Jessica is changeable.  Different people may have different definition or feeling of safety in the different relationships.  For a mental patient, different kinds of medicine can make him feel safe.  Under this circumstance, Jessica is a kind of medicine… There are two pieces of passport in the second picture， although, the identifications in second picture looks like belong to two different individuals, actually, it is one person.   Because of the safety that the medicine brings, his personality was split to two parts, one is himself and another one is Jessica. Gradually, he fell in love with Jessica… The object in the third picture is an urn, which contains Jessica’s cremains.  In order to possess the kind of safety forever, he finally killed Jessica.  To love means to destroy, to destroy means to possess.  The death of Jessica makes him feel safe.  Actually, Jessica is himself, which means he killed himself.  The death of Jessica can make that kind of safety to be eternal.