This painting is my vision of a parallel world of spirits where death and life intertwine. The work shows two contradictions at once. On the one hand I tried to convey the atmosphere of the approaching apocalypse. On the other hand it is an image of the birth. Something new reveals itself from the smoke after the explosion. My work is connected with the vision of the beggining of universe. Our world was created out of ash which came from the eruption. Its beginning takes place in complete emptiness. I'm fascinated by the inclusion of two such extreme qualities in one point. They are complete opposites but at the same time they cannot exist without each other. In my work life and death meet with each other. They are so close that they lose their real senses.