Inkl. Steuern.
About the central painting
“When You Stare at the Sea for a Long Time, You Start to Miss People. And When You Stare at People for a Long Time, the Sea.”
Tempera on canvas
2024
This painting is about emotional distance and the impossibility of fully belonging to one world at a time.
I was thinking about the strange duality between intimacy and freedom. Sometimes we long for people because we feel emotionally isolated. And sometimes we long for solitude because closeness becomes overwhelming. The sea in this work becomes a metaphor for silence, space, inner escape, and emotional depth. People become a metaphor for attachment, memory, warmth, and emotional dependency.
The central figure exists between these two desires. She is surrounded by color, movement, and emotional noise, yet internally she remains suspended in thought, almost detached from her surroundings. I wanted the work to feel emotionally fluid, like memory itself. Beautiful, unstable, impossible to fully hold onto.
For me, this painting is about the emotional rhythm of human existence.
The constant movement between wanting to disappear and wanting to be deeply seen.
The bright visual language contrasts with the quiet melancholy underneath it. The work explores how loneliness can exist even inside connection, and how freedom can sometimes feel just as painful as attachment.
“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”
— Haruki Murakami
