Acrylic on canvas
80 x 80 x 1,4 cm
März 2026
Unique
Nearly still
I am in no state of true calm, but close to it. There is still movement within me, but it is no longer disordered. The lines follow something I did not plan, and yet it seems as if they have already found their place, without having fully arrived. The tension is still there – I feel it clearly. But it no longer presses as it did before. It quiets down, holds back, almost as if it does not want to overwhelm me further. There is much happening within me at the same time: thoughts that still touch each other but no longer overlap. Feelings that have lost none of their intensity but change their expression. Perhaps it is a pause that I did not consciously take, but that simply arose – from exhaustion, from being overwhelmed, or from the quiet wish to keep the world at a distance for a moment. In doing so, I do not truly withdraw. It is more of a subtle shift within me: away from the outside, toward something that is calmer, but not empty. Something that carries me without being loud. ‘Nearly silent’ is not a state I have achieved. It is a moment when the pressing eases — and I begin to feel that something quieter inside me is making space.
