Gregorius Noah Abimanyu

Gregorius Noah Abimanyu was born in 2011 in Yogyakarta.

These drawings that tell a story are the deposit of my anxiety and imagination because I love studying world history, especially the history of World War II, and then the current state of war. These works tell the imagination of the never-ending war. These pictures tell how the life of war vehicles, especially tanks during and after World War II.

To me these vehicles seemed to have a soul and life, which were only used for war. They had to go through the long and hard process of war life; from going to war, experiencing pain from cannon fire, leaving scars and anger which in the end they had to go to the workshop to get their body repaired, then they were forced again to go to the battlefield. The wounds they left behind and anger made the tanks only want to wreak their revenge. Fatigue, the ambition to attack each other and anger made the wounds deeper. The traces were also left there. War is endless, war is of no use to humans, even vehicles that seem to have souls. War is just an arena for avenging revenge to each other.

Finally, the question would arise later, why should there be a war that costs a lot? War only inflicts wounds everywhere. Wounds for humans, wounds for war vehicles and wounds for the world.

The souls are tired.