The One Who Gathers Mattresses Picture

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I called this work - “The One Who Gathers Mattresses”, it`s something like an allegory of death. Sometimes in my childhood in the stillness of the night when I went to bed and put my ear on the pillow, I heard mensural crunches. Later when I grew up, I learned that it was my own pulse. But when I was a little child I imagined it was someone who comes for me, sinking into the snow. I imagined a man wearing old sheepskin coat crossed the vast snowy wilderness. Maybe he still goes and goes as long as our hearts are beating…

2d, illustration, mattress, snow, flowers

by  Georgi Markov