Signed, Original, shops Fine Art, Giclée Print, "Food for Worms"

This is a signed, original, giclee fine art print of a pen and ink drawing. The image size is approximately 13 by 16 inches on 14 by 17 inch cotton etching paper. The drawing was inspired by the "contradiction" in the human condition - the fact that we long for immortality but are transient, physical beings. Ernest Becker captures this best in the following passage (from The Denial of Death):

“But it is more than creature anxiety, it is also man's anxiety, the anxiety that results from the human paradox that man is an animal who is conscious of his animal limitation shops. Anxiety is the result of the perception of the truth of one's condition. What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression-and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would create such complex and fancy worm food? Cynical deities, said the Greeks, who use man's torments for their own amusement."

The print is rolled and shipped securely in a tube.