has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
AT THE DYING OF THE LIGHT
2016
120 (h) x 100 (w) x 2 cm
acrylic and oil on canvas
From beyond the horizon
Call my ships back to port.
Will you still remember me
At the last remaining light?
Both summer and winter
Be my pole, be my lodestar.
Will you still believe in me
At the dying of the light?
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“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953)
THE AWAKENING COASTLAND
2016
120 (h) x 100 (w) x 2 cm
acrylic and oil on canvas
Nightingale
In the name of love
Are you with me
Open water
Inside and outside
Hope and soul
When Southern winds
Whisper your name?
Nightmare
Under your black flag
Are you with me
Deep blue sea
Rise and fall
Noble metal
When former ghosts
Reawake my past?
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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway
PLATA O PLOMBO (SILVER OR LEAD)
2016
120 (h) x 100 (w) x 4 cm
acrylic and oil on canvas
About the title: plata o plombo, silver or lead. In short, it means 'Accept this money or get shot'. Accept a bribe or be assasinated. Do what the hell I tell you and I will make it worth your while or I will blow your head off. This is a common term especially for the Mexican drug cartels today but it was first systematically used by the drug lord Pablo Escobar to establish his brutal Columbian narco empire.
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"Las mentiras son necesarias cuando la verdad es muy difícil de creer." (Lies are necessary when the truth is very hard to believe.)
Pablo Escobar
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
CRY ME A RIVER OF GOLD
2016
120 (h) x 100 (w) x 4 cm
acrylic and oil on canvas
In the light of your dying sun
When the sky falls to the sea
Give me a reason to hold on
In the cold rain of a winter’s day
When your moon devours the stars
Give me something to believe in
In the dead of a sleepless night
Before your kiss becomes a memory
Give me something to remember you
And cry me a river of gold
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“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
Samuel Beckett (ex: Waiting for Godot)
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
AFTER THE SUMMER RAIN HAS PASSED
2016
150 (h) x 120 (w) x 4 cm
acrylic and oil on canvas
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left part of the diptych
POETRY OF A WARM SUMMER BREEZE
Diptych 2016.
255 (w) x 150 (h) x 4 cm
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Meet me by the water's edge
After the summer rain has passed
Wake me up in a new year's morning
Wake me up in a pure day's warming
Where the hopeful sun is shining
Bright and white on your horizon
After the summer rain has passed
Meet me by the water's edge
Meet me by the water's edge
After the summer rain has passed
Lay me down in a winter's evening
Lay me down in a midnight's healing
Where the promised stars are rising
Above your calm and free horizon
After the summer rain has passed
Meet me by the water's edge
* * * *
"Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August."
Jenny Han (ex: The Summer I Turned Pretty)
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There is a silent and deep beauty in the basic things. We are (still) full of hope and we feel the circle of life when spring meets summer. Of course all our wishes will not come true. But this isn't so crucial. More important is our hope and belief in the gift of life. These are the promises of the first warm summer breezes and every ray of light.
MEET ME BY THE WATER'S EDGE
2016
150 (h) x 120 (w) x 4 cm
acrylic and oil on canvas
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right part of the diptych
POETRY OF A WARM SUMMER BREEZE
Diptych 2016.
255 (w) x 150 (h) x 4 cm
* *
Meet me by the water's edge
After the summer rain has passed
Wake me up in a new year's morning
Wake me up in a pure day's warming
Where the hopeful sun is shining
Bright and white on your horizon
After the summer rain has passed
Meet me by the water's edge
Meet me by the water's edge
After the summer rain has passed
Lay me down in a winter's evening
Lay me down in a midnight's healing
Where the promised stars are rising
Above your calm and free horizon
After the summer rain has passed
Meet me by the water's edge
* * * *
"Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August."
Jenny Han (ex: The Summer I Turned Pretty)
* * * *
There is a silent and deep beauty in the basic things. We are (still) full of hope and we feel the circle of life when spring meets summer. Of course all our wishes will not come true. But this isn't so crucial. More important is our hope and belief in the gift of life. These are the promises of the first warm summer breezes and every ray of light.
POETRY OF A WARM SUMMER BREEZE
Diptych 2016.
255 (w) x 150 (h) x 4 cm
acrylic and oil on canvas
Meet me by the water's edge
After the summer rain has passed
Wake me up in a new year's morning
Wake me up in a pure day's warming
Where the hopeful sun is shining
Bright and white on your horizon
After the summer rain has passed
Meet me by the water's edge
Meet me by the water's edge
After the summer rain has passed
Lay me down in a winter's evening
Lay me down in a midnight's healing
Where the promised stars are rising
Above your calm and free horizon
After the summer rain has passed
Meet me by the water's edge
* * * *
"Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August."
Jenny Han (ex: The Summer I Turned Pretty)
* * * *
There is a silent and deep beauty in the basic things. We are (still) full of hope and we feel the circle of life when spring meets summer. Of course all our wishes will not come true. But this isn't so crucial. More important is our hope and belief in the gift of life. These are the promises of the first warm summer breezes and every ray of light. The diptych combines following works and should "read" from left to right:
left part:
AFTER THE SUMMER RAIN HAS PASSED
acrylic and oil on canvas, 2016, 120 (w) x 150 (h) x 4 cm
right part:
MEET ME BY THE WATER'S EDGE
acrylic and oil on canvas, 2016, 120 (w) x 150 (h) x 4 cm
IN THE DARKNESS BEFORE THE DAWN LEAVE A LIGHT ON
2016
100 (h) x 81 (w) x 2 cm
acrylic and oil on canvas
Leave a light on
Don't fear the darkness
Hope is the bridge
Haven and home
Love is the light
Moon and sun
I am with you
And you are with me
Leave a light on
Dawn is coming.
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"Love is not consolation. It is light."
Friedrich Nietzsche
