Acrylic on canvas
80 x 80 x 1,6 cm
January 2026
Unique
“Between the Waves”
This work is strongly influenced by my time off in Fuerteventura over
the past few weeks. It shows no destination, no solution, no end point.
It insists on the in-between. It does not depict tranquility, but rather the condition for
tranquility… namely, completeattention.
Of course, blue dominates… it is generally perceived as the color of
the sky and the ocean, but I did not choose it primarily for that reason
here, but rather as a space for depth and healing… a field in
between… between control and surrender… between thinking and
feeling. For me, blue is reliable… quiet and supportive… blue allows
me emotional distance while maintaining presence… I don’t know what it
is yet – but it’s allowed to be there.
The many circles are not to be understood as ornaments… for me, they
are tenses… marking my cyclical thinking and the return of the inner
self… not as a deficit, but as the structure of my consciousness. They
do not arise from planning, but from a spiritual necessity…the
circle…it has no beginning and no end…it conveys protection and
unity, but for me it also harbors the danger of “going around in
circles.”
So the work initially asserts itself as inner peace… but it repeatedly
exposes this in the geometric triangular elements that I have gradually
added… not everything is round and harmonious… and yet… the work
clearly shows the changed relationship to the inner peace so longed for.
I have rejected it as a goal… Inner peace is not my life… it is not
my purpose… For me, meaning does not arise from harmony but from
enduring contradictions… without categorizing myself… without
pigeonholing my rationality as the antithesis of emotion… rather, I
see it as a framework for this… it is like the wave… in between.
For me, the wave is not an event… it is a principle… it is not, but
it becomes. It is full of contrasts… it is high… it is deep… it is
calm… it is moving… there is no state that is permanent and the
same. All of life is a wave motion, and so I try to understand that
contrasts are not mistakes, but conditions of existence.
And yet… with the warm but energetic orange, I vehemently resist
neutralization once again… without pushing myself too impulsively or
dominantly into the foreground, but it would have been more consistent
to paint the revealing angular elements in blue or white tones.
And that is precisely why, for me, “Between the Waves” is not a place of
salvation… it is a place of perception… it is not identification
that is crucial, but observation… not stagnation, but awareness.
