Like the makers who are tasked or take upon themselves to convey a purpose greater than the representation of the rightfully established, I too indulged in pursuing of legitimacy. How does an artist claim land, mountains, a nation state or the presence of a deity? Mar Baijiev, a Kyrgyz manaschi, obtained the possession over the lake Issyk-Kul both from Tengri and Allah. Buddha's presence manifests itself in his statue after the craftsman paints his eyes by looking at a mirror, never witnessing Buddha's inhabitation directly. My grandfather climbed a tree to see the birth of his first child through a window instead of entering the hospital. To justify my belonging to the European art historical tradition, I deflected the authorship over the process of the making to a pvc-panel, which transferred the paint directly to the surface of the drawings. I myself had no access to the front and only faced the back of the works.

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