LAST JUDGEMENT
Author on her work in the catalog of the exhibition" Jukas (Riga, 2005):
The last and final judgement in our lives is death. Quite often people receive repeated warnings about the seriousness of what is happening (we are speaking here of premature death), but unfortunately, only few are able to read or interpret the information they have received and relate it to themselves connecting it with their mental state and hierarchy of values. These warnings or alarm bells come into people’s lives in the form of events – the sudden death of a pet, an accident or a fire, chronic unfounded fear, illnesses and other misfortunes that are usually perceived as various seemingly unconnected events. It’s only when none of these protective and refreshing-healing signals are no longer of any help that people become troubled by more serious problems.
On the occasions when the last judgement is delivered, taking into account its specific nature, people should bid farewell as soon as possible to what they consider is the most precious and important in their lives, including the latter. However, at those moments, people usually concentrate on the preservation of life, health and comfort, and this only increases the possibility of the sentence being carried out. Quite the contrary, we don’t even realise the exceptionally healthy and irreplaceable function of the departure ritual and process in which the true core of the death sentence is hidden, morals and meaning.
Beginning to analyse and carrying out the destabilisation of values, people often arrive at the true causes of their illness or misfortune, but this is very rare. In real life, the heroine of the videowork received her judgement at the prime of life but fortunately, she is still “waiting” for it to be carried out.