The painting "The Dispute" was created in the first two months during the shutdown of the corona pandemic and is a mix of acrylic and charcoal on canvas. It is a nude picture.
The picture shows two naked women's bodies facing each other, but opposite. One woman with her head up and her feet down and the other woman with her feet up and her head down. It is striking that one woman is shown in purple and the other woman in turquoise and the faces are not recognizable. The two women form the central focus of the picture. The gaze is directed in a circle around the middle.
The respective background to the woman is exactly the other color to the woman's body. The middle consists of black coal. Energy circles made of black coal are drawn around the women. The corners are filled with the color white. On the purple and turquoise background are speckles of the other color.
The viewer looks down on the two women's bodies from above in a bird's-eye view.
The picture is a discussion on my part with the topic of Corona in relation to my own body. I am one of the risk patients and in the isolation of the pandemic I had to deal with the fear of getting sick in my own body and the need for closeness.
The naked fear for health and life can be seen here in the nakedness of the body. Two bodies reflecting one's soul (hence crossed hands and feet). The body in purple, which actually feels healthy and strong, longs for closeness in isolation in contrast and therefore turned around at a distance from the body in turquoise, which is afraid of getting sick, of dying. Neither face can be seen, because during the pandemic, you want to remain unrecognized with your fear and not be seen as hysterical. But thoughts are constantly circling in both heads: the fear of becoming ill, the desire to break the isolation, fear for existence, etc. In order to break through this, I have also mentally dealt with art, in order to get my head into other paths guide shown in Scripture.
But life around you is constantly going on and even in isolation you are not idle. Hence the circles of energy that flow out of both women's bodies, but also surround them. Rounded off by the small splashes of color in purple on the turquoise background and in turquoise on the purple background, which make it clear once again that the two women's bodies that form one cannot be separated. And the respective desire to leave the restricted circle of energy in the other direction.
This picture is representative of my work because it deals with a topical social issue, which plunges many people into fear and depression, but in this confrontation it motivates me to become aware of my own emotions and to use them as potential.
