Artist Statement
On a cold March evening in Montreal, Cesario Lavery was walking home from a shift in an unfamiliar part of town when he stumbled across an old, discarded book of early literary criticism on the great Franz Kafka. Cracking it open, Cesario was amazed to discover not only an extraordinary book, but a portal to the life of an extraordinary man - the book's previous owner, Dr Chaim Fischel Shatan, the (relatively unknown) founder of the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder diagnosis. DER EYDES (Yiddish: The Witness) is Cesario’s ongoing serialized comic about the treasure he found and the treasures it led to.
Two-page sequence from DER EYDES VOLUME III, 2022.
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