Mourn

Posted by acharis (Sydney, Australia) on 12 May 2006 in Animal & Insect.

Artist's Comments
"I had seen this nearly everyday, for more than a week. Every time I saw it on my walks, it would lower my spirits a little.
Today I was feeling rather sad, just at the world, and myself and everything in general. It was cold, so I took a jacket, and into that jacket, I put my camera because the weather was nice and I thought I might see some nice shots worth taking.
Thinking about humans and humanity, I came across the bat. I dont know if it was the cold, the walk making me tired or all my misanthropic moping, but I felt tears.
This creature just wanted a place to rest for a while, it landed on what it thought was a comfortable spot and had innumerable volts shot through its body, burning it and tearing its life away instantly. It didn't ask for this, and it didn't deserve it.
And noone cared, noone saw it.
I was taking these pictures along the highway and getting honked at and abused while photographing this dead bat, and all I could think about was the fact noone cared that it was there.
Everything dies, that can't be changed. But if something can't even be remembered in the simplest ways because it isn't "important" enough, maybe we (humans) aren't dying fast enough."