After the death of his friends, Derrida met his cause of death, cancer, and lived with his ghost until he died.
He saw that he would die someday and advised us to live our lives accordingly.
On the other hand, Derrida restructured mourning and melancholia and reorganized our relationship with the "dead" other.
The other self is absorbed and idealized during mourning. Therefore, it seeks to ensure the peace of mind of that who survives.
So the only way not to kill the dead again is to protest mourning.
The "mourner" wants to replace what he lost with something else,
Memory reminds us that it is not only that thing that is lost but also our relation that we have lost.
Memory must replace what is lost with something else, a tombstone or an image.
For example, our artworks are ghosts of the death we left behind us.
- Butterflies
In her book "Precarious Life," Butler argues that some lives are more precarious than others. However, Bauman states that before we die, we all walk on slippery floating lands and that the danger that threatens one of us somewhere affects the whole world.
The pandemic has confronted us all with our death, regardless of race or gender. Rilke says every human has a form of death, just like the seed in the fruit. Those who die in wars, massacres, and mass deaths cannot reach the end they are capable of.
They pass into the future as ghosts because they cannot be buried according to tradition.
People were thrown into anonymous mass graves during the pandemic, as in genocides. Many people passed into the future as ghosts because they could not be mourned.
In 1995, 83,732 Bosnians were massacred by Serbia. Blue butterflies perched on cemetery flowers discovered lost graves and hidden martyrdoms. Those blue butterflies went down in history as a symbol of mourning.
Dozens of mass graves and thousands of lives… Martyrs without a shroud and their incredible stories… In this bitter life, blue butterflies represent a forlorn hope. It is melancholic because of the smell of mass graves, and the plants on them are the nests of blue butterflies. In other words, wherever the butterflies are, everyone, old and young, women and children, who were massacred in Srebrenica, is there. Hope, because nothing else would make families search for the bodies of the ones they lost.
While the Serbian atrocities are ruthless, and international organizations are silent on what is going on, no other living thing in the world will help the people of Srebrenica find their martyrs. After this disgrace for humanity in 1994, Bosnians began chasing blue butterflies for days to find the bones of their loved ones and a single trace of them. Some discovered their martyrs and buried them in proper graves. Unfortunately, many people have spent their lives chasing blue butterflies.
Covid Grave
We must replace the images of people who could not be appropriately buried in COVID cemeteries with these butterflies and flare up hope.
Covid Grave
"Imago" means the final maturation of the butterfly in its life cycle. During the COVID, many people couldn't complete their self-images because they were buried in mass graves before the final stage of their cycle.
Memory replaced the butterfly "imago" with the ones we lost during the pandemic.
