Igor Vujatović: From so much crying, little comes back

Through the metaphor, sheep are incredibly similar to us. They are living beings, like you and me, of flesh and blood, they have their own needs: from housing, care, community, hierarchy, food, water, they have needs for reproduction, they care for each other and behave accordingly like humans. They are herd creatures just like we are social beings. As we live ... Read More

Through the metaphor, sheep are incredibly similar to us. They are living beings, like you and me, of flesh and blood, they have their own needs: from housing, care, community, hierarchy, food, water, they have reproductive needs, they care for each other and accordingly behave like humans. They are herd creatures just as we are social beings. Just as we live in our community, they also need each other to protect themselves. But what happens if you single out an individual, if you remove it from the community and leave it to itself, if you only exploit it, giving it back nothing but things that it may not even need?

Taxes are essentially a good thing. It is designed as a system through which each of us gives society a part of our earnings, profits, what we have for the common good, so that society can function together: the rich to the poorer, the able-bodied to those who are not. Money moves through institutions to be used where it is most needed – from education, science, sports, employment... Unfortunately, these great resources and capital are in the state treasury, banks, in the hands of people who often put their own interest before the welfare of the community. Every day we hear about corruption and fraud that happen as if it were something completely normal. Such news is information, tomorrow it is forgotten and another one comes in its place. Laws are formed to favor the rich, who are becoming even richer. All this enormous money must come from somewhere. It usually has to be given by "little" people who usually barely survive. In this way, through repressive administrative institutions, politics manages us humans as with numbers, not as human beings. Each of us has at least once been classified under a certain number in one way or another, we have looked behind the counter at a person who has no patience for what is human, but has put us like pieces of paper in a pile, as statistics, whose job it is to charge and do what he is told. The system is ruthless. It is not easy to work and provide a living wage, and it is even harder to be out of work. Like a flock of sheep, they shear us, take us without question, most often in writing with a stamp and signature, take our wool like sheep and leave us in the cold, so as it happens, it happens. I am convinced that each of us at least once felt cheated, manipulated, and we just wanted to try, work, for ourselves, for the community, for the people we love and appreciate.

Another problem that this paper deals with is the injustice that is happening in today's society. Namely, the same money that could help a large number of people does not end up where it should end up. A lot of money is invested in "progress", but it is paradoxical that the people who implement it often take a "piece of the cake", so that sometimes in the end there is almost nothing left. A lot of effort and effort is invested in starting new projects, which are often an end in themselves. Realistically, it would be best if savings and rational investments were made, instead of taking and spending, maybe one day that capital would be more valuable and serve for a noble cause or for the general welfare. In this way, taken manipulated, it often ends up where it should not be, where it is unnecessary and where it is pointless to invest it, like a sheep to which its own wool has been returned. The third problem I want to touch on is restoring and restoring natural resources and not taking more than we need. If we demolish a forest, then it is logical to plant a new one, if we deplete the land, then it is logical to feed it again, it is the same with people and animals. Everything we do now will affect the future, not only around us, but on a global scale. In nature, there are no boundaries that we humans have artificially set, we are all connected and dependent on each other. We humans, as intelligent beings, should take care of ourselves and the world around us, but often this is not the case. Not only do we take and do not give back, but we do not care what will happen tomorrow, let alone in the future. It is necessary to pay attention and think about what we do, to give back what we have taken in a way that it is renewed. We have to think about each other in order to be better.

Igor Vujatović

BIOGRAPHY

Igor Vujatović was born on 21.01.1988 in Bjelovar. He grew up in Hercegovac, and graduated from the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb, where he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb and graduated in 2015 in the class of Assoc. Prof. Prof. Art. Svjetlan Junaković. During his studies, he participated in several joint exhibitions such as: 'IlustrAlu' – an exhibition of illustrations by students of the Academy of Fine Arts in 2012, "Neue Crotaishe kunst" in 2014, the exhibition "8 profiles" of a new generation of visual artists, he participated in projects for the creation of posters for the play "Orpheus and Eurydice", which won the competition and went public for the "Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall" (2014), at a joint exhibition of local artists in the Garešnica area, and after graduation, he exhibited at the ARThoc exhibition – a collaboration between the Academy of Fine Arts and the Klovićevi dvori Gallery.

Contact: igor.vujatovic1@gmail.com