"Can't Help Myself" was a 2016 kinetic sculpture by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu featuring an industrial robot arm mopping up red fluid that kept leaking from its base. While the piece was supposed to be about society and border control, it went viral on social media in 2023 as heartbroken netizens related to it as a metaphor for emotional pain, existential struggle, and the grind of survival.
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #437: Can't Help Myself.
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