Treachery – Oil paint and mixed media on board 61cm x 61cm 2024
Dante’s deepest circles of hell are characterised by ice, not the fiery pits you may come to expect.
Treachery is the ultimate betrayal of trust. Who deserves our trust? Those who share their world as a paradise, not as their feifdom.
On November 3rd 1986 protesters painted a white line along a 5km stretch of the Berlin wall. Ungestaltung wann bei ans – When is reform here. A simple gesture, in a simple colour. In the Meso American compasses white denotes night, an absence of the sun. We need a reformation and to place the sun and our environment more firmly within our lives. We need a move away from the sins which characterise the circles of hell. We need to reform. We need Perestroika.
I have long been fascinated by walls and their use to divide, demark, contain, protect and prevent.
