Beyond the Horizon
The series "Beyond the Horizon" is a picturesque exploration of inner landscapes, lost worlds, and secret connections.
"Beyond the Horizon" is a painterly exploration of inner landscapes, lost worlds, and secret connections between humanity, nature, and memory. The series emerged from a need to create spaces that elude the visible – places that only persist in the mind's eye.
I work with forms that evoke animals, plants, or topographical structures, but never become fully tangible. They appear, merge, and dissolve again. These fragmented, flowing compositions reflect the fragility of memory and identity – especially in times of change, displacement, or spiritual quest.
Every painting is an invitation to embark on a journey to the shore of fantasy.
The use of color is intuitive and meaningful: violet represents dream and transformation, green organic life, yellow hope and light. Often, creatures like quetzals, horses, or imaginary plants appear as intermediaries between worlds.
They are not mere images, but archetypes – symbols of a collective and simultaneously personal myth."Beyond the Horizon" refers not only to the geographically distant, but also to the psychologically repressed, the spiritual, the invisible. Those spheres where the past continues to live and the future is already discernible. It is an attempt to penetrate with brush and paint to where language no longer suffices – into those spaces where memory becomes dream, and dream becomes form.These works are not answers, but open questions. They invite you to linger, to gaze, to listen with your inner ear.
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