Richka

The work “Of All Kinds of Animals, I Am Human” by the artist Richka reflects on the meaning of existence and the search for the truth of one’s own path — a journey that inevitably passes through childhood memory and trauma. At its center lies the metaphor of an inner monster born from unprocessed experiences, which over time grows to dangerous proportions, consuming a person from within.

This story is about the moment when we stop distinguishing between meaning and illusion, truth and fiction. As Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in his essay “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense,” truth is merely “a mobile army of metaphors” — an invention humanity created to withstand the chaos of the world. Nietzsche believed that we should not discover truth but rather create it, reinterpreting our traumas and limitations as sources of strength.

The monster in “Of All Kinds of Animals, I Am Human” becomes the embodiment of this philosophy — not an enemy, but a manifestation of inner energy that can be tamed… “to act,” “to move,” “to create” — insert here the meanings or illusions that fuel us. How can we find the necessary direction to use this fuel with purpose and not burn out along the way? To reach that longed-for destination — the encounter with oneself, with the part we have long tried to hide. It is an invitation into a stream of consciousness through purification, a movement between fear and revelation, between destruction and the birth of a new “self.”