Lockdown Portraits, 2020
During the 2020 lockdown I created a series of oil-on-paper paintings. Paper sucks up the oil extremely quickly, resulting in an unusual workflow for oil painters: you work more in layers than in color blending.
When producing the Trauma book, I wrote several lyrical fragments, which got associated with certain pieces.
Works of this series were exhibited at my Trauma – solo exhibition at Museum Angerlehner.
You grow.
(do you thrive?)
You digest what you cannot
name.
You name what you become
witness to.
It’s a meager voice,
quite often it’s quite
meager.
Du verlässt das Vakuum der Sprachlosigkeit,
kennst Nähe und Liebe.
Gibst Nähe und Liebe.
Woher eigentlich kennst du sie?