An image I have had in my head for many years, the idea of freedom of mind. Depicted in the beloved landscape of the Czech borderlands - the Sudetenland. The painting itself belongs to the series "Sudeten Romance"
Sudetenland, the borderland of the Czech Republic was heavily affected by the World War II,
the postwar expulsion of ethnic Germans, by communism and resettlement of the land by people with no relation to this poor part of the world, the hills and the foothills. This defines the uneasy cultural and social situation.
The nudity and figure contrast withe the nature in both its delicacy and cruelty.
Should this landcape be reinhabited by people or should it be left to myths and legends? Is it at all possible to cohabit with the Nature in this day and age? Is there any space left still for ancient secrets?
Can we face the past? Do these places still have future at times when life is lived here and now?
