Since 2017, I have been performing "The People's Path." Each time, I await the audience in a red robe with a scythe at different locations around the city and beyond. We then follow an intuitive route, but where exactly we will end up is unknown.
The first impression of the woman with the scythe evokes the image of death, which resonates with the pandemic that has engulfed the entire world. We are now entering a new era, a time of upheaval. I embody more the Bardo (Tib. བར་དོ།)—an intermediate state, literally "between two"; "an intermediate stage between one phenomenon and another." In Tibetan Buddhism, Bardo usually denotes the interval between one life and the next. I often use ancient tools. My grandfather was a blacksmith—an ancient profession whose work helped people survive. Without the past, there is no future. In the present, we search, we pave the way; I am not the only one making decisions. The red color symbolizes the will to win, Muladhara – the birth of life!
