The Vessel #1 Print

The Vessel #1- Self Portrait for Everyone The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment about a vessel which rotting parts were replaced until no more of the earliest pieces remain, asking whether it's still the same ship as the original. In this painting it represent the nurtures, to which one accepts and rejects relative to one's nature before anything else. The easel represents the creation of a person, the chemical structure on the wall is of dopamine, one of the chemicals responsible for happiness and addiction in lack of moderation, and the mask for how they were used in Venetian festivals to hide social status and identity as this would be just about anyone. Together they symbolize determinism; the absence of free will due to how all events are determined by elements present and by extension achieveable through sheer coincidence.