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Restart or Exit, 2022
Pine, poplar, maple, plywood, steel, hardware
89 x 22 x 29 in
"Restart or Exit" is a 7ft6 tall, life-sized functional guillotine with an adjustable lunette. On the top is Shiva, the god of destruction, performing a cosmic dance. This guillotine serves as a death portal to the "other world." Death here can be interpreted as the end, or the new beginning, depending on one's belief. Even when a person's religion believes in reincarnation and justifies the positivity of death, the idea of dying is still intimidating of the unknowing and physical suffering, just like no matter what attempt the artist tries to glorify the guillotine with pink color, it is still a terrifying and deadly weapon.