Thesis Presenation

peace plucking

 

Peace Plucking reimagines the childhood game Love Me, Love Me Not as a quiet but unsettling ritual of doubt. In the original game, petals are plucked one by one to arrive at a verdict of love. Here, the petals are replaced by feathers, and love is replaced by peace—fragile, bodily, and painfully finite.

 

The dove, a universal symbol of peace, stands at the center of the composition not in flight, but grounded, wounded, and exposed. Each feather drifting away carries a verdict: peace me, peace me not. What is usually a playful act becomes an act of erosion. The game, once innocent, turns violent through repetition.

 

This work speaks to our deep insecurity toward peace. We do not allow peace to exist on its own; we demand evidence, guarantees, conditions. We ask peace to justify itself-politically, morally, strategically-over and over again. Each demand removes another feather. Each justification costs something real. Yet we continue plucking, convinced that certainty will eventually appear in the final count.

 

The phrase “Until nothing is left anymore” marks the inevitable conclusion of this logic. When peace must constantly prove itself worthy of love, it is slowly dismantled. What remains is not clarity, but absence.

 

Peace Plucking questions why peace, unlike violence, is never allowed to be unconditional. It exposes the paradox of seeking assurance through destruction, and asks whether our need for proof is the very reason peace so often fails to survive.

 

 

Size

W: 70 cm x H: 100 cm.