MUMMY'S SCREAM
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MUMMY'S SCREAM
A story featuring a crayon-style design by SamuraiSixCoin.
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STORY: Chapter1～6
Chapter1: The Awakening and Scream of Tutankhamun
■The Awakening of Tutankhamun
■Heatstroke Mummy
■Mummy's ScreamTutankhamun, the most famous pharaoh of ancient Egypt, awakened in the modern age. Shocked by the extreme heat caused by global warming, he let out a scream with a look of horror on his face—reminiscent of the figure in Munch's painting.
Chapter2: Everyday Crises
■Masked Mummy
■Smartphone Captive Mummy
■Wizard MummyIn this modern era, struck by the COVID-19 pandemic, people have become captivated by their smartphones, and the landscape is dominated by fakes—such as a magician appearing to sever his own head.
Chapter3: Suspension of thought
■Mummy Stepped on a Landmine
■Frozen Mummy
■Sweet MummyBattlefields are carpeted with landmines, and casualties abound. Yet, people cloak even the uncomfortable truths about chocolate—child labor in cocoa-producing regions and the exploitation of small-scale farmers—in a sweet sense of bliss. It is a blatant suspension of thought.
Chapter4: Love and Desire
■Romantic Mummy
■Flamenco Mummy
■Karaoke MummyTo the eyes of the revived mummy, love has not been lost to humanity. Nor have the passion for life and the desire to reach ever-greater heights waned.
Chapter5: Ecstasy, anger, and tears
■Drunken Mummy
■Dozing Mummy
■Mummy of Anger & TearsYet, drugs, alcohol, and even dozing off are resorted to as means to briefly forget the stresses of modern life. While many people feel anger and shed tears over the irrationality and absurdity of the world, the mummy is simply left speechless with astonishment.
Final Chapter: Reason, and a Witness to the Times
■Rainbow Mummy
■Meditating Mummy
■Modern-Day Witnesses: The MummiesThe mummy ponders deeply, finding hope in a world of diversity. Resurrected from ancient Egypt, it bears witness to modern society and takes on the role of connecting to the future. The story continues.
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To preserve the narrative quality of the crayon-style design.
■Chapter1 + Chapter2
■Cahpter1 + Cahpter3
■Chapter1 + Chapter4
■Chapter1 + Chapter5
■Chapter1 + Chapter6
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MOCKUP
■ Why must the mummy return now?
For it compels us to re-examine the universal human values that are slipping away amidst our material affluence. "Black propaganda" wielded by those in power, a deluge of fake news, the fear of a pandemic, the anguished cry of a warming planet, the isolation of individuals held captive by their smartphones, and the erosion of universal emotions like love and passion—the mummy, a traveler across time, speaks to all of this with a quiet yet biting satire. Yet, even as I let the mummy speak in this way, I certainly do not abandon hope. I hold onto it for the sake of the children of the next generation.
■ Where are we heading?
Drawn with crayons—an everyday, familiar medium—these works are by turns melancholic and comical, yet they all pose the same fundamental question: Are we heading toward a bright future filled with hope, or toward a hellish catastrophe that will consume everything in flames? Tutankhamun—the most famous pharaoh of ancient Egypt, who died in his youth—is resurrected in modern society; he witnesses the world with astonishment and undergoes a myriad of transformations. The "MUMMY'S SCREAM" series, comprising eighteen crayon drawings based on this theme, acts as a mirror reflecting the distortions of modern society; it awakens emotions dormant deep within us and reminds us of values we had all but forgotten.
Indeed, the series goes further, urgently calling upon us to "wake up"—for the point of no return is already looming right before our eyes. I should also add that I drew inspiration and encouragement from The Scream by the world-renowned Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.
About Author
SamuraiSixCoin
Visual artist, writer, and former investigative journalist based in Sapporo, Japan.
Known for dynamic geometric abstraction, satirical artworks, and international human rights and environmental storytelling.Other notable works:
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