PAINTINGS

H/AUNT I
2024
100x70cm
acrylic on canvas

TEAR I
2024
40x30cm
acrylic, epoxy, textile, polyester on canvas

TEAR II
2024
40x30cm
acrylic, epoxy, textile, polyester on canvas

THE SECRET
2024
50x30cm
acrylic on canvas

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I
the fall

a snake coil opens the doors to one’s mortality. giving life, flesh and blood its haunting begins. ~ the archetypal symbolistic language on these paintings resembles perpetual entanglements of life, memory and the unconscious or subterranean world - one being faced only when life as we see it tends to leave us.

all exits are final, she turns to dust if we try to look back. wisdom of one’s own guides, and one’s own wounds can be traced upon years long journey into the allegoric journey of one’s tree of life.

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II
[text by Dominik Rainer]

The egg shape of the paintings brings to attention the moment before birth, before being thrown into the world in an act that is in itself traumatic and bloody. Man, being evicted from the mothers womb looks to the skies to find his place and the reason for his being.

The strings on the paintings suggest the snake, itself a bearer of wisdom and knowledge in many cultures. But what could this wisdom be? The menacing colours of the series suggest something dangerous and dark and the tree lies barren. The lost paradise may be one of death in itself. Therefore man acknowledges that, as mystery cults of times old and new knew, the return to this long lost unity is one that comes with the acceptance of his own death.

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