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.
SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS
Diptych 2016
260 (w) x 150 (h) x 2 cm
acrylic and oil on canvas
Charybdis was the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia and lived as a loyal servant to Poseidon. She aided him in his feud with Zeus, and as such, helped him engulf lands and islands in water. Zeus, angry for the land she stole from him, cursed her into sea monster. Charybdis was believed to live under a small rock on one side of a narrow channel. Opposite her was Scylla, another sea monster that lived inside a much larger rock. The sides of the strait were within an arrow-shot of each other, and sailors attempting to avoid one of them would come in reach of the other (Homer, Odyssey Book XII). The myth is still alive. To be "between Scylla and Charybdis" therefore means to be presented with two opposite dangers, the task being to find a route that avoids both.
The LARGE-SIZED DIPTYCH contains two paintings and should “read” from left to right:
“SCYLLA”
2016, 150 (h) x 120 (w) x 2 cm
acrylic and oil on canvas
“CHARYBDIS”
2016, 150 (h) x 120 (w) x 2 cm
acrylic and oil on canvas
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
