Wounded Tools is Iranna GR's commentary on human civilizational growth and its intrinsic follies. In the name of civilization, territorial aggressions, ideological indoctrinations, homogenization of tastes, etc. are violently inflicted upon human beings. This is done with an intention to create a ‘world order’. Wounded Tools is an exclusive and poignant metaphor; it has a donkey mutely carrying a saddle filled with tools. The sharpened edges of tools are bandaged, showing blood stains. Through a deliberate reversal and subversion,Iranna has made the tools (which in fact could inflict wounds) the actual victims of civilizational violence. The depiction of agrarian tools and the deliberate avoidance of tools of aggression tell the story of transition of societies from their primal innocence to more contrived and calculative existence.
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